What is your favourite Queen Elizabeth II coin?

[Zhorro]

I think we should be celebrating the life of Queen Elizabeth II, and therefore I suggest we show our favourite coins from her reign.

My suggestion is the £25 quarter ounce gold Platinum Jubilee coin released earlier this year.

[SidS]

Mine is the humble florin - happy memories of those as a child.

[Stuntman]

I really like that Platinum Jubilee coin design, both obverse and reverse.  I don't own an example but would be completely happy 'just' to have the £5 Brilliant Uncirculated cupro-nickel version in the RM packaging.

I sincerely hope that the RM keeps minting these because I would love one as a keepsake in my collection.

I will have to think about my actual favourite Queen Elizabeth II coin.  There are several strong contenders both from circulating currency, bullion and proof issues, and at the moment my answer might even be the 2018 10oz silver bullion Valiant coin.  I think it's a fantastic 'incuse' reverse design and it's a dazzling object in its own right.

Will have a further think and probably post up various photos later.

[Petra]

14 minutes ago, Stuntman said:

I really like that Platinum Jubilee coin design, both obverse and reverse.  I don't own an example but would be completely happy 'just' to have the £5 Brilliant Uncirculated cupro-nickel version in the RM packaging.

I sincerely hope that the RM keeps minting these because I would love one as a keepsake in my collection.

I will have to think about my actual favourite Queen Elizabeth II coin.  There are several strong contenders both from circulating currency, bullion and proof issues, and at the moment my answer might even be the 2018 10oz silver bullion Valiant coin.  I think it's a fantastic 'incuse' reverse design and it's a dazzling object in its own right.

Will have a further think and probably post up various photos later.

The Valiant is a great coin, unbelievable that it seems to have disappeared. The 10oz must be quite a piece to hold.

[Petra]

2 minutes ago, Petra said:

The Valiant is a great coin, unbelievable that it seems to have disappeared. The 10oz must be quite a piece to hold.

But I still want a 10oz Britannia!😁

[AgCoyote]

51 minutes ago, Stuntman said:

I really like that Platinum Jubilee coin design, both obverse and reverse.  I don't own an example but would be completely happy 'just' to have the £5 Brilliant Uncirculated cupro-nickel version in the RM packaging.

I sincerely hope that the RM keeps minting these because I would love one as a keepsake in my collection.

I will have to think about my actual favourite Queen Elizabeth II coin.  There are several strong contenders both from circulating currency, bullion and proof issues, and at the moment my answer might even be the 2018 10oz silver bullion Valiant coin.  I think it's a fantastic 'incuse' reverse design and it's a dazzling object in its own right.

Will have a further think and probably post up various photos later.

I love that 2018 Valiant. The incuse is amazing. I love that Valiant series but no doubt the 2018 stands above the others.

[Stuntman]

Interesting so far that everyone who has created or added to this thread self-identifies as 'Collector', or 'Both'.  

I think this sort of thread will appeal to everyone,  but more so to 'Collectors'.

[Paul]

Love my 2oz gold Una & Lion, then 2oz gold platinum jubilee i got from Andy @shawy2510

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 9, 2022 by Paul

[caf84]

GC Quartered Arms or QB Completer. If I had to pick, probably the GC.

And as a bit of a curve ball/guilty pleasure (very likely an unpopular one), I've always liked the 2017 Christmas Tree!!

[dikefalos]

The Platinum Jubilee crown is a great coin on both sides, but i like the Alderney QEII Una & Lion by Jody Clark even more, at least one side. That's a coin, you should never flip😅

Edited September 9, 2022 by dikefalos

[Zhorro]

6 minutes ago, dikefalos said:

The Platinum Jubilee crown is a great coin on both sides, but I like the Alderney QEII Una & Lion by Jody Clark even more, at least one side. That's a coin, you should never flip😅

Yes, I bought the Alderney sovereign because I liked the design.

[Xander]

the one worth the most money.

[flyingveepixie]

Some fantastic coins on display on this thread. 

I always liked the simple half crowns, florins, shillings, sixpences etc up to 1967 as they were a part of my childhood....

Edited September 9, 2022 by flyingveepixie

[Zhorro]

1 minute ago, Xander said:

the one worth the most money.

If you have been on eBay recently this rule of thumb may not work!

[Paul]

20 minutes ago, Xander said:

the one worth the most money.

[Scootermuppet]

Personally, it's the Gillick Sovereigns - they just look... ...Right! 🙂

'Proper' Sovereign colour and the portrait I remember most from my childhood 👍

 

[Stuntman]

OK, I've had a good look at the Elizabeth II coins that I have in my own collection and my 'shortlist' is as follows:

Circulating currency coins

1953 nickel-brass threepence, with the portcullis reverse

1968 Decimal 10p with the crowned lion passant reverse

1973 EEC 50p

1989 Bill Of Rights and Claim Of Right £2 coins - I have a virtually uncirculated Bill Of Rights currency coin collected from change, and also the two-coin BU set in RM packaging, bought in 1989

2012 Handover to Rio £2 coin

2015 Magna Carta £2 coin (closest I have to a 1989 sovereign...)

2016 Britannia £2 coin

2017 Isaac Newton 50p

Bullion coins

The Gold Standard 1/4 oz gold bullion coin - my personal favourite year is 2020, because of the scales on the (edit) reverse and how the two '20' figures balance each other

2018 Two Dragons 1 oz gold (or silver) bullion coin

2018 Valiant 10 oz silver bullion coin

2021 Queen's Beasts Completer 1kg silver bullion coin

Brilliant Uncirculated coins

2017 five sovereign piece, echoing the 1817 gartered reverse design

2022 five sovereign piece in matte finish

 

That's my shortlist... 😉

Edited September 9, 2022 by Stuntman

[Stuntman]

And I will just leave this here.  OK, there are two 10 oz bars in the photo alongside four 10 oz coins and the kilo coin, but come on... just look at them!

 

[Stuntman]

This is the bar that doesn't display well in the previous photo.  I need a 10 oz bar capsule for it...

[Midasfrog]

I love this design plus they make a great sound tumbling around in your pockets 😂

[Britannia47]

Gillicks all day long. Can’t recommend them enough!

[Darr3nG]

2 hours ago, Stuntman said:

shortlist

It certainly is a list...

[SilverMike]

These two for me:

 

but I am very fond of these also:

 

 

i also think the QB Completer is lovely, but I regrettably sold that a while ago.

[Silverscrooge]

My favourite is the Diamond Jubilee £10 pound coin...

[SidS]

Another shout out to the threp'ney bit! I also loved the original 50p. The Britannia design was well executed.

I kinda like the current 5p with the broken shield design.