Hi, New collector (or at least new in ID'ing coins). I am in the process of assorting my collection by it's 'country'. I have a handful of coins that have Elizabeth II on the obverse. Some on the reverse are; 2 New Penny, 1/2 penny, and 1 New Penny. I don't see where these coins come from. I also have other Elizabeth II coins and easy to ID, reverse of these other coins says 'Canada'. How do I determine where these 2 New Penny, etc come from? Are they all from Canada (even though they don't have Canada on the reverse?). Thanks for your help. Does anyone know of a site where I can search to ID coins in my collection? Thanks HERE ARE THE PICS.
Post a scan/pic. This will help. For Canadian coins : http://www.canadian-coins.de/auflagen.htm = there are no pennies.
Great Britain does not put it's country name on its coins or postage stamps. I'm not 100% sure, but I think the only British Commonwealth coins with "new" as part of the denomination are the 1/2 new penny, new penny, 2 new pence, 5 new pence, 10 new pence, 25 new pence and 50 new pence coins starting with the changeover from the traditional 12 pence=1 shilling, etc., to the 100 pence = 1 pound in 1971. The "new" was dropped in 1982.
By 1971, the other British Commonwealth countries that had used pounds, shillings, and pence had long before switched to decimalized (is that a word?) coins. As far as I know, none of those other countries ever used the "new" moniker. Some Imperial countries have used the decimal system from the first day they minted their own coins. Canada, for example. The United Kingdom is the ONLY country that doesn't put the national name on their coins or stamps. It's tradition. The stamps have always done that, dating all the way back to the "Penny Black." For the coins, the innovation is rather more recent. On the coins featuring King George VI (father of the present Queen), he was identified as "King of all the Britains." Presently, Elizabeth II is called simply "Regina" (Latin for Queen).
That I remember as the first true "postage stamp", from my high school stamp collecting days in the '40s. That I didn't know. (I only collect British coins as part of my One Per Monetary Regime collection)
Fellowcollector,the Channel Islands of Guernsey & Jersey also issued coins denominated in 'New Pence',as did the Isle of Man. Aidan.
Technically, this is not true. Several countries do not put the national name on their coins, but rather the bank that issues the coins. ie. Russian coins carry the name "Bank of Russia", as do coins from Serbia-Montenegro (National Bank of Serbia), Indonesia (Bank Indonesia), and others. You also have to consider the monetary unions, that are not specifically a single country, such as the West African States, which are issued and used by several independent nations. As far as tradition, many Russian coins did not carry any national name, only the monogram or crest of the monarch. Several coins of the Netherlands issued under William of Orange carry only the crowned monogram and crowned arms to identify the nation of origin. The first issues of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) carried only the Royal Crest. Many Romanian coins of the 1950's only had the national seal.
Austrian 1 and 2 heller coins of the 1880's have the Austrian coat of arms on one side and just a number and date on the other with no other inscriptions at all. (There may be other denominations as well but those are the only two I know of off the top of my head.)
