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King Charles III First Coins Revealed! With A New 50p

BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited October 17, 2022 8:38AM in World & Ancient Coins Forum


Courtesy of You Tube.

Pete

"I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 22,612 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A friend ordered a few from the Royal Mint. I’m getting one in sterling. 👍

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 45,296 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Any pics of the reverse?

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gold and silver the same value? 5 Pounds?.... They appear to be the same size, maybe just the picture. Cheers, RickO

  • MetroDMetroD Posts: 1,930 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 18, 2022 7:08AM

    @PerryHall said:
    Any pics of the reverse?

    50 Pence (BU) {Also available as a Silver Proof}
    £5 Crown (BU) {Also available as a Silver Proof}
    £5 Crown (Gold Proof)

    Representative 50 Pence Reverse (same for BU and Silver Proof coins):

    Source

    Representative £5 Crown Reverse (same for BU, Silver Proof, and Gold Proof coins):

    Source

    Edited for clarity, and to add the following:
    I cannot currently find it on the RM website, but APMEX is offering, as a pre-sale, a 50 Pence Gold Proof coin.

  • MetroDMetroD Posts: 1,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    Gold and silver the same value? 5 Pounds?.... They appear to be the same size, maybe just the picture. Cheers, RickO

    £5 Crown (BU - Cupro-Nickel) - Diameter = 38.61mm Source
    £5 Crown (Silver Proof - .925 Sterling Silver) - Diameter = 38.61mm Source
    £5 Crown (Gold Proof - 916.67 Fine Gold) - Diameter = 38.61mm Source

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    Any pics of the reverse?

    No. Only he obverse was shown.

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SaorAlba said:

    They've been out for awhile actually.

    To have a die crack across Alfred's face is the perfect match.

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,110 ✭✭✭✭✭

    looks like a man who waited way to long for the throne.

    The decline from democracy to tyranny is both a natural and inevitable one.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 27,411 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There was some guy who yelled our at the funeral " your to old" disrespectful yes

  • anablepanablep Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting, no crown on his majesty's head.

    Always looking for attractive rim toned Morgan and Peace dollars in PCGS or (older) ANA/ANACS holders!

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  • MasonGMasonG Posts: 6,268 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 16, 2022 2:37PM

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  • vulcanizevulcanize Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @anablep said:
    Interesting, no crown on his majesty's head.

    Atleast it's not a case of "Emperor's new clothes" :p

  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 27, 2022 7:53PM

    @anablep said:
    Interesting, no crown on his majesty's head.

    British kings have not been shown crowned on British coins since the earliest coins of Charles II (1662), immediately after the restoration of the monarchy. English and British Kings since then have all been shown on the coinage as either bare-headed, or wreathed Roman-Emperor-style. Perhaps it was a tacit acknowledgement that the Parliamentarians had destroyed the old crown during the Civil War and the replacement crown lacked the authenticity and "gravitas" of the old one. Or perhaps it was just the rising Neo-Classical trend in European coinage for royal portraits to look more "Roman Imperial", and the Romans didn't use crowns. Either way, it's become a tradition now: for the last 200 years or so, British kings are bare-headed.

    Only the queens are shown crowned, and even then being shown diademed was more common than a crown or tiara.

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