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King Charles III First Coins Revealed! With A New 50p
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A friend ordered a few from the Royal Mint. I’m getting one in sterling. 👍
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Any pics of the reverse?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
Gold and silver the same value? 5 Pounds?.... They appear to be the same size, maybe just the picture. Cheers, RickO
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):
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I cannot currently find it on the RM website, but APMEX is offering, as a pre-sale, a 50 Pence Gold Proof coin.
£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
They've been out for awhile actually.
No. Only he obverse was shown.
Pete
To have a die crack across Alfred's face is the perfect match.
Pete
looks like a man who waited way to long for the throne.
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Debt
There was some guy who yelled our at the funeral " your to old" disrespectful yes
Interesting, no crown on his majesty's head.
"Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."
~Wayne
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Atleast it's not a case of "Emperor's new clothes"
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/u-s-coins/quarters/PCGS-2020-quarter-quest/album/247091
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.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded one DPOTD.