British Pence from Victoria to Elizabeth II (High Res)
History is cool.
I think so, anyway.
A few years back on a trip up the UK I bought some old pennies from a guy in the Barras, Glasgow, featuring the monarchs going back for as long as he had.
Today I actually found an 1826 penny of King George IV on an old plantation — but it needs to be cleaned, and it's very worn.
Finding that made me pull these out and take some nice high res photos
Right Click > Copy Image Location - paste into a new window and zoom in.
Notice the direction they are facing
They alternate, after Elizabeth II the monarch will be facing to the left. Notice that they included Edward VIII who abdicated but got no coins (I don't think?), so George V and George the VI end up facing the same way but Edward VIII would have faced right... I think...
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria (older)
King Edward VII
King George V
King George VI
Queen Elizabeth II
Do you like coins?
I don't have many old coins, but I've started a very small collection of modern coins from different places.
Really hope to find some more colonial era coins (1966 and earlier) over time. .
Growing up, my dad collected and sold coins. I remember going through his collection with him as a young child - the smell of copper and nickel on my hands for hours afterwards.
Thanks for that moment of nostalgia, @jamtaylor. :)
On a different note, check out that resolution! I mean, dayum.
And I reduced them In size because I thought 5000px wide was just a bit too taxing on bandwidth :P
Lol! That would have been quite a slow loading page. Haha
Nice finds and great documentation! There's something about old coins that makes you feel closer to the history of a place. I have an amateur collection but mostly early US coins. Cheers @jamtaylor
I like holding them imagining all the places they went and the world in those times, especially the 19th century stuff.
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Nice images of well used coins.
I like numismatics. I find it odd that the UK uses portraits of the current monarch, and the US uses dead presidents. I know it's a tradition dating back to the ancient world to use money as imperial propaganda and promote reverence for the ruler, but in the US up until about a century ago it was a general policy to portray ideals rather than specific individuals, usually in the form of an Indian head or a liberty figure. It just creepy to turn coins into little religious icons for political purposes.
Yeah it is interesting. I think the monarchy and aristocracy in general was meant to be a living ideal as well, a symbol, though I'm not sure that people were or are supposed to strive for that ideal in terms of wealth or class, since we know that individual upward mobility was rare.
I actually find that many Americans practically worship those dead presidents and especially "The Founders" and their holy book The Constitution. Maybe the effect is pretty similar in terms of the propaganda element even when the people are long gone..
Our money here also has dead leaders, or "national heroes" who did something that people may want to use as inspiration. Not the coins, but the paper money.
nice, but there not called pennies. 1 pence 2 pence 5 pence pieces and so on.
Whoops, noted!
I bought three silver 3d coins in a junk shop to put in my christmas pudding last year. Got to fish them out and check them now I have read your post ... thanks it is interesting :)
Upon time ago, Acehnese also have koin. gold koin.