I read over the internets the other day, how Prime Minister Brown of the UK had proposed adding an extra bank holiday so more people could go out and celebrate Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubillee in 2012. this got me thinking... I figured two years is enough time to assemble an empire-wide QE2 type set However, there are some problems. For instance, take George VI's coinage: Just circulating coins with almost no commemoratives. There are four portraits, bareheaded, crowned, with Ind IMP on them and without. With the exception of the Gold stuff, it's actually pretty easy to get. Since the Pobjoy mint got the Isle of Man contract, it's been really complicated, the plethora of commemoratives and collector coins has been expanding geometrically, All the Canadian and Aussie stuff celebrating sports stars and the like? It looks like this is out of my price range. So I'm going to limit it to one per obverse per country...that is with her portrait. there are a whole bunch of those, too. but the UK has five: Young (1953-70) Standard (1967-1986?), Mature (with or without shoulders) (1987-1997), and elderly (199. Plus there are a number of commems here and there. Then Canada has had two different portraits they had their people do, same for New Zealand. Another way is just get one from the last batch of coins produced with her face on it. For instance the Bahamas stopped having her face on the coinage in 1973, and Jamaica in 1967. What do you think I should do?
If you really want to tackle that , I would say your best bet would be to work on the actual circulating coins...and either forget the commeratives and NCLTs, or just save them for later, unless you can find a great deal on them. I think she has been on more coins then any other person in history...even more then Lincoln with the billions of US cents...
