Death of Queen Elizabeth II

Will coins with her likeness on the coin increase in value?

 

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I would doubt it. There are 70 years worth out there.
But what do I know?

 

As usual it will be only the folks trying to make money off her death that will think so.
For collectors it will still be grade and rarity.

 

Because of the longevity of her reign and the sheer number of coins from many countries with her portrait on the obverse, I'm inclined to say no. Perhaps there might be a surge of interest in certain pieces, such as her original coronation coinage from 1953, but I doubt it.

 

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I have the 1970 Great Britain proof set on display until the Queen is laid to rest. Typically, after a new coronation, the new monarch's portrait goes into production...I hope Charles's is a good one, but can it ever be as popular as Elezabeth's?

 

Excuse me........I really don't know what you are talking about. All I see is replies speculating on weather certain coins will be valuable, Nothing political, nothing nasty, please clarify for me what the problem with this thread is.......

 

Thank You. I missed that.

 

They won't be worth more but people do want certain ones suddenly. All of my British 1953 coins I had on eBay sold right away when she died.

 

I thought my $2 US investment into this Royal Mint Set from 1953 was decent two years ago... KM has mkt value of $65 on the set so not sure why it was priced so low at the time.

Several of the coins were modified slightly for the circulation strikes that same year; something about the shoulder on the bust; I think I read somewhere they werent striking up properly or something like that...Can't really have a complete type set without the two 1953 types because they have BRITT OMN in the legend and that was removed/changed in 1954.

 

Fabulous mint set...are the major coins struck in silver? I have a 1970 Proof set struck in copper-nic. but no farthing coin in it.

 

No silver in the set. I don't think anything below a crown was struck in silver under Elizabeth II, except perhaps the coronation medals and Maundy coins/sets.

 

Thanks...I will study a bit more...interesting that some British Commom. countries still coined in silver for years later.

 

I would get it out of the holder that it is in, with a distilled water wash, then take the photos again.

 

Yes. As far as I can tell from the KM manual, Great Britain itself did not mint silver coins at crown or lesser denomination for general circulation in GB during the QE II reign. Plenty of other countries coined silver with QEII portrait. Crowns stopped being produced after 1937 and were 50% silver that year. They were not produced again until 1951, and only had 1 year runs in 1951, 1953, 1960 and 1965 and were copper-nickel. Half crowns were produced in silver through WWII but went to copper nickel in 1947 along with shillings, florins, and 6 pence coins. WWII ended silver in circulation in GB it seems. Silver might have been around, but we all know that fiat will drive precious metals out of circulation pretty quickly.

 

Interesting...The U S left the silver std. in '64...I guess we were the lucky ones.

 

Canada should have 20% silver until 68'.

 

They stopped making the farthing in 1956.