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Being a Yankee, I need some help here.  I'm hoping someone has a list, or can point me towards one, of every country's coinage that Queen Elizabeth II has been on. Is a list of all Commonwealth countries during her reign good enough...I mean did all of them produce coins? I assume all Commonwealth countries have (or had) her portrait on their coinage, or is this not always the case? Has there been non-Commonwealth countries who had her on their coins? (Circulating coins, I'm not interested in commemoratives) Thanks for the help! P.S. If this has been covered here before, a link to the previous post would be great. I did search, but didn't find anything. |
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schmidty- hmm interesting question. Honestly the only way to do this might be to browse through a Krause for a while. But here is a list of those which come to mind:
Great Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Jersey
Canada
Isle of Man
Bahamas
Cayman Islands
Hong Kong
Malaya & British North Borneo
British East Caribbean States
British Virgin Islands
British Honduras
That's all that I can think of at the moment without grabbing my Krause books. I hope that this helped!
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yes, please add in
Mauritius
Bermuda
Fiji
and, but not sure, check Seychelles?
has king george but I dont recall any Queen E-II
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Cook Island
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another one... St. Helena
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I have some Seychelles with QEII on them, the young portrait much like the one from Hong Kong and Malaya and British Borneo.
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i hope I don't confuse things but being I don't know the answer to your question off hand you might be able to use this as a guide I am assuming if she has appeared on a banknote she might of appeared on a coin as well so here is a list of some of the countries that she has been on banknotes.
Australia
Bahamas
Belize
Bermuda
British
Caribbean
Territories
British
Honduras
Canada
Cayman Islands
Ceylon
Cyprus
East Africa
East Caribbean States
Falkland Islands
Fiji
Gibraltar
Great Britain
Guernsey
HongKong
Isle of Man
Jamaica
Jersey
Malaya and North Borneo
Malta
Mauritius
New Zealand
Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Rhodesia
Saint Helena
Scotland
Seychelles
Solomon Islands
Southern Rhodesia
Trinidad and Tobago
Zambia (essay only)
Edited by scott3270
01/27/2010 06:54 am
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Is a list of all Commonwealth countries during her reign good enough...I mean did all of them produce coins? No, not all of them produced circulating coins; the smaller ones in the Caribbean particularly use a common currency, the "East Caribbean States dollar". And some of the countries where she is still queen (such as Papua New Guinea and Barbados) don't put her on their coinage. Nevertheless, a List of Commonwealth and former Commonwealth countries is a good place to start; there won't be any countries not on the list that have the Queen routinely on their coinage. However, I do notice that the list of countries doesn't actually include dependencies; add to this list the dependent states of New Zealand and Great Britain that are listed on this page - none of the Australian dependent states have issued coins with the Queen on them. Here, then, is a list, as complete as I can recall, edited by colour. Index: Black = most or all coins have Queen's portrait Blue = circulation coins used to have Queen's portrait but no longer do so todayGreen = only commemoratives have featured the Queen's PortraitRed = no coins have been struck with Queen Elizabeth's portraitOrange = no coins issued at allPresent Commonwealth MembershipAustralia BahamasBangladeshBarbadosBelize (formerly known as British Honduras)BotswanaBruneiCameroonCanada CyprusDominicaEast Caribbean States (monetary union) GambiaGhanaGreat Britain GrenadaGuyanaIndiaJamaicaKenyaKiribatiLesothoMalawiMalaysiaMaldivesMaltaMauritiusMozambiqueNamibiaNauruNew Zealand NigeriaPakistanPapua New GuineaRwandaSaint Kitts & NevisSaint LuciaSaint Vincent & GrenadinesSamoaSeychellesSierra LeoneSingaporeSolomon Islands South AfricaSri LankaSwazilandTanzaniaTongaTrinidad & TobagoTuvalu UgandaUnited Arab EmiratesVanuatuZambiaFormer Colonies, Expelled From Commonwealth, etcBritish East Caribbean Territories (now Guyana and East Caribbean States)British West Africa (now Nigeria, Ghana and several other places)East Africa (Now Kenya and Tanzania)Fiji (anomaly - a Republic and Expelled from the Commonwealth but still has the Queen on all it's coinage) Hong Kong (Now Chinese)Malaya & British Borneo (now Malaysia and Singapore)Rhodesia (also Southern Rhodesia and Rhodesia & Nyasaland)(now Zimbabwe)ZimbabweDependant States (of NZ or GB)AnguillaBermuda British Indian Ocean TerritoryBritish Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Cook Islands Falkland Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Jersey Isle of Man MontserratNiuePitcairn IslandsTokelauSaint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha South Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsTurks and Caicos IslandsFor your purposes, ignore the red, orange and green ones; whether you include the blue ones or not is entirely up to you. Note, some NCLT commemorative coinage with her portrait has been struck in the name of other places (eg. Alderney, Gough Island, British Antarctic Territory) but since these are either non-autonomous parts of other countries or barren, uninhabited rocks, I didn't bother including them in the list. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Old gal gets around...no offense! Would it be safe to say that Queen Elizabeth is probably one of the most recognized people in the world?
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Sap, yet again I am amazed... You're a walking Numismatic Encyclopaedia, aren't you! :)
If only you could find me images of the following:
- Hamburg Mint (1923-1943 and/or 1947-1980)
And it would also be nice if we could find some images of:
- Stuttgart Mint (1923-1960)
- Muldenhütten Mint (1923-1953)
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Would it be safe to say that Queen Elizabeth is probably one of the most recognized people in the world? Yes; she would have to rank up near the US President (current or former), the Pope (current or former) and some of the big-name movie stars. Anyway, it appears that the answer to the question posed by schmidty in the title to this thread, if one doesn't include NCLT but does include former Queen-users, is "35". Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Sap...you are amazing!  Thanks to everyone who posted a reply. A very helpful group of people! My wife says "thank you all". She is assembling a "one from each country" collection, and thought it would be neat to assemble a "sub-set" of all the QEII countries. Thanks for all the help!!  |
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Not to diminish Sap's greatness in any way, I need to correct a couple of things as this is my primary interest in coins. I'd turn Zambia green, I have eight 2000's coins with E II on them, including two beautiful 1000 kwacha crowns with the latest effigy of the queen on the obverse and Victoria and Edward VII on the reverse. British Indian Ocean Territory needs to be turned green as well for they issued 2£ coin in 2009, yes with E II on it (I got one  ) Edited by svslav
01/27/2010 12:29 pm
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Thanks a lot svslav! Youget one, too! I really appreciate the help from everyone. This is eaasily my favorite coin forum. Actually it's my favorite forum, period! |
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An afterthought:
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha have the common currency under umbrella of "St. Helena and Ascension", although each of them issued coins with their respective name on it. Recently a subset of TDC, Gough Island and Nightingale Island, each issued NCLT crowns in their names, and another TDC part, Stoltenhoff Isl., issued "circulating" coinage, 1/2d through 1 crown. Now Gough did the same.
Niue and Pitcairn just minted circulation coins from 5c to dollar or two dollars, so turn them black in Sap's list.
All of the above picture the queen on the obverse.
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You forgot to put the British Antarctic Territory on the list.
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