QE2 in Gold Coins - Courtesy of the Telegraph

[dicker]

Nice to see someone at The Telegraph reflected on HMQ depicted on gold coins.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uk/queen-elizabeth-ii-70-year-reign-best-moments-platinum-jubilee/

 

[RDHC]

Looks much better here than in other photographs of Gillicks. I have always thought the original design was just slightly lacking in definition around the profile of face, though a brilliant and innovative concept as a whole, and I am certainly glad to have a few examples of the actual coins. (And I have read that another artist, Owen Thomas, I think, was called in to improve Mary Gillick's efforts, which might bear out my subjective impression of the profile.)

[RDHC]

1 hour ago, RDHC said:

Looks much better here than in other photographs of Gillicks. I have always thought the original design was just slightly lacking in definition around the profile of face, though a brilliant and innovative concept as a whole, and I am certainly glad to have a few examples of the actual coins. (And I have read that another artist, Owen Thomas, I think, was called in to improve Mary Gillick's efforts, which might bear out my subjective impression of the profile.)

My apologies: having checked my references, I find that it was Cecil Thomas (not Owen Thomas) that deserves the credit. Yet another mistake  as a result of getting older.