How Many Countries Coins Has Queen Elizabeth II Been On?

No, I didn't forget them. As I said at the bottom of my previous post, I wasn't including them. Gough, Nightingale and Stoltenhoff are uninhabited rocks; zero population. I consider their coinage "unofficial". Alderney (part of Guernsey) perhaps should be added; I'm on the fence about those ones. In any case, all these "coins" are NCLT.

Likewise the "British Antarctic Territory"; no inhabitants plus unrecognised state = unofficial coin. I'm still surprised that Argentina and/or Chile haven't declared war on the Pobjoy Mint over that one yet.


I wasn't aware of the existence of these particular sets, but while they may look like "circulation coins", they're struck by the "New Zealand Mint", an NCLT mint. Neither island is big enough to sustain an autonomous coinage, and I doubt any of the coins will ever even make it to the islands in question. I'd say they stay red, until and unless I see evidence otherwise.


Corrections noted and listings changed. There are likely to be a couple of other "redlisted" countries that should be green; The OP is focussing mainly on circulation coinage, so I didn't scour their Krause listings completely thoroughly; I was working mostly from memory.

Thanks for all the help, guys!

I am pleasantly surprised at all the activity this post has generated. I am intently watching your discussion about some of the "questionable" countries.

Completing it might be tricky; finding her on the coins of some of the "green zone" countries (NCLT) is pretty hard to track down. Papua New Guinea, for instance, has only put her portrait on two 10 kina coins, 1977 and 1982, both struck by the Franklin Mint. While I don't think any of the countries are "gold only" or otherwise hyper-expensive, some of them only have her portrait on coins worth in the $100 range.

The main problem with "completing" it would be that the list is constantly expanding; Mints like Pobjoy, Perth Mint and the New Zealand Mint are always looking for the next country they can slap a royal portrait on, because they know that "royalty" sells coins. Uganda, for instance, never issued a "queen's portrait" coin until it became a flag of convenience for the Perth Mint. You might have trouble finding a Perth Mint Uganda coin that's actually round; most of them are all sorts of odd shapes, like triangles, or shaped like the map of Australia.

The East Caribbean dollar still had the portrait of QEII on it.

Burma was also a British colony (as part of British India), but was never part of the Commonwealth after independence. Just wanted to add that for the sake of completeness.

quote from SAP: "... I also only just noticed that the dimwits over at Wikipedia didn't actually include "Great Britain" with the other Commonwealth countries.
List updated again."

Find any drunken Scot, and turn the conversation to "nationhood", and you'll get a lecture about Scotland being a "country". In support of this contention, it will be pointed out that Scotland has a separate team from England in the Commonwealth Games; and also in the FIFA World Cup.
It is futile to point out that almost every other international body (even ebay) recognizes a country, or perhaps nation, call "the United Kingdom". If you do a bit of googling, you'll find that "U.K." is in fact an abbreviation for "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
I gather that upto 1923, when the Republic of Ireland acheived independence, "U.K." was then an abbreviation for "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland".
So, I gather that G.B. is more of a geographical name, than a legal &/or political one. And, it would appear to mean the sum total of England, Scotland, & Wales, and possibly also some of the nearby islands.
Of course, all of this begs the question of "what precisely is a country, or a nation ?" And, depending upon how you answer that, you may have to further amend Sap's list.
In my view, the issue of coins bearing a regional element does not elevate a region into a nation: for example the Australian 20c & 50c CoF coins issued in 2001.

Sometimes, I don't envy you OFEC collectors, although I do admire your courage.

Peter in Darwin

hooooooly mackeral....

Further to the UK/GB discussion, why not "hedge your bets" and collect one each of the UK constituent countries pound coins - then you will have an England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland addition.