How many of your coins feature a portrait of Elizabeth II?

I have 392 types with QE2 portraited om them. About a dozen or so only feature her name.

QE2 is on 9% of my coins. This might actually increase with the new portrait coming.

Not many, my collection is mainly pre-1945 or silver, so the only QEII coins I have are a few Australian and Canadian coins where the QEII coins were still silver, and a Fiji silver proof set from 1972.  A total of 27 different coins.

Too Many.... is really boring her face in many coins        

E.II is the most portraited on coins
But I ask who's the second and the third ...

The second might be BOLIVAR ?
and the third GEORGE VI ?

I would say that Victoria would be right up there.  She has the longest reign and was in charge during the height of the British Empire

I would imagine George VI would be 2nd most.

Lincoln may be #2 (or even #1?!) because of ridiculous American 1c coin mintages. They made 7,000,000,000 Lincoln cents in 2013 alone! That's one for every human being on our planet!!

485 billion American cents have been struck with Lincoln's portrait since 1909!

As for Queen Elizabeth The Second, I have 963 individual coins in my collection with her portrait, 1953-2013.  The combined mintages of those coins is about 115 billion.  QEII coins are 10% of my collection.

In comparison to other British monarchs, I have 142 coins from George VI, 96 coins from George V, 9 coins from Edward VII, and 24 coins from the reign of Victoria.

I mean in different KM# coins
Don't forget WASHINGTON, theree are states quaters, then national parks quarters ...

Quote: neilithicI would say that Victoria would be right up there.  She has the longest reign and was in charge during the height of the British Empire

This is the correct answer in my opinion (Being British myself)

QE2 (pre and post decimal coinage)
Victoria (has the most jubilee portraits)
George VI (relatively short reign but still plastered on a lot of different coinage)

Most of mine are Victorian or older, I only have the commemorative low value crowns with QEII on them since I don't like the monarchy and feel they should be abolished, only dead monarch coins interests me.

18th and 19th century is where I focus my collecting of British coinage.

Elizabeth is close to improving Victoria's record in terms of reign.  And currently a lot more territories have their own coins and they change their designs way more often. Also, during QE2's reign inflation has been much higher than during QV.

Soon a fifth portrait

Quote: jokinenElizabeth is close to improving Victoria's record in terms of reign.  And currently a lot more territories have their own coins and they change their designs way more often. Also, during QE2's reign inflation has been much higher than during QV.

don't forget that also during QV reign there were many more British Empires world wide, meaning her portrait appeared on a lot more individual currencies, England at one point governed most of the world, where as QE2 is only on a handful of other countries that are still part of the British empire now.

Let's make a list  

QV
- U.K.
- Jersey
- Canada
- Jamaica
- Guyana & West Indies
- British Honduras
- Mauritius
- British India
- Ceylon
- Straits Settlements
- Hong Kong

South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and British West & East Africa did not have their own coins at that time.

QE2 current circulation:
- U.K.
- Isle of Man
- Jersey
- Guernsey
- Gibraltar
- St Helena & Ascension
- Falkland Islands
- Canada
- Bermuda
- Belize
- East Carribean States
- Cayman Islands
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Solomon Islands
- Cook Islands
- Tuvalu
- Kiribati

Former QE2 areas:
- Fiji
- Malaya & British Borneo
- Ceylon
- Seychelles
- Mauritius
- East Africa
- Nigeria
- South Africa
- Rhodesia (& Nyasaland)
- Gambia
- Jamaica
- Bahamas
- British Honduras

wow, what a list!!

I got a migraine just reading it.  

Quote: JustforFunToo Many.... is really boring her face in many coins        

Here here!

Totally agree. If it isn't from the Island it shouldn't have the portrait anymore. I know I know; the CW s...t. But; man; Canada, Australia; nothing better to use as seal?

Not like they would care; but it is dumb.

Quote: Cerulean485 billion American cents have been struck with Lincoln's portrait since 1909!

I think they were referring to the number of different coins, not the amount of coins

1.5 Million tons
I hope some were remelted

Quote: Fluke

Quote: jokinenElizabeth is close to improving Victoria's record in terms of reign.  And currently a lot more territories have their own coins and they change their designs way more often. Also, during QE2's reign inflation has been much higher than during QV.

don't forget that also during QV reign there were many more British Empires world wide, meaning her portrait appeared on a lot more individual currencies, England at one point governed most of the world, where as QE2 is only on a handful of other countries that are still part of the British empire now.

I think Victoria barely counts. Yes, the British Empire reached its greatest extent under her watchful eye - but does that mean that she appeared on many different currencies? I think not.

Under Victoria's reign, most colonies had to use the homeland pound sterling, because making different coins for different colonies is a pain - a pain only fully embraced under QE2. And the decolonial movement didn't really pick up until after QE2 took power (India was the first but not the last). For instance, New Guinea, New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Solomon Islands, etc. never had any coins struck specifically for them in Victoria's time. Same deal with most Caribbean islands (except Jamaica). Furthermore, large swaths of Africa had yet to be properly colonized and these locales also never got any Victorian coins made for them. Just look at British West Africa, East Africa, South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia and Nyasaland... all of them have Elizabeth's portrait, but no Victoria. And now, the Pobjoy Mint and other criminals make cartloads of tacky crap for Cook Islands, Niue, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha, St. Helena... none of this would ever have been allowed under Victoria. In total types, Elizabeth II is the clear winner.

In total coins, it's a tough choice. I think that modern huge mintages give E2 the advantage over V, with hundreds of millions of British decimal pennies being made. World population has increased vastly since then, so more coins need to be made for the same territories - the loss of India is the largest obscuring factor, but! In 1900, just before V's death, British India contained only 271,000,000 people - this is lower than the population of the modern USA and is really not that impressive. The homeland British population, meanwhile, was 38,000,000 - compare that to today's 64,000,000. Conclusion: because of increased population and better minting equipment, Queen Elizabeth II still beats Victoria.

In New Zealand all of the current ones!



But seriously I have nearly have 2,000 or so including

NZ about 500
Australia about 200
UK about 200
Canada about 200
Mauritius
East Carribean states
South Africa (1953 - 1960)
East and West Africa
Straights settlements to 1960ish
Hong Kong
Jersey
Guernsey
Falkland Islands
Fiji
Cyprus (1950s)
Rhodesia

And no doubt I will find I have missed out a few!