British Rejected Designs

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  1. princeofwaldo

    princeofwaldo Grateful To Be eX-I/T!

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  3. spirityoda

    spirityoda Coin Junky

    that's to bad it looked like a great design
     
  4. Paul M.

    Paul M. Well-Known Member

    The picture is of a £50 coin that they are producing. I'm a little disappointed they're not doing a 60p coin.
     
  5. spirityoda

    spirityoda Coin Junky

    my bad. I like it.
     
  6. Taxidermist

    Taxidermist Collector of US/IL/RU/DE

    That Britannia looks great, I collect these 1 oz, hoping to get the unreasonably expensive 2005. The old hag ruins UK coins, thats why I mostly stay away from them... pre-1980 bust design was nice though.
     
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    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

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  9. scottishmoney

    scottishmoney Buh bye

    Oh really? Would you prefer Charles III's visage on the coinage? Surely that is one of the signs of the impending apocalypse whence it should happen.
     
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  10. Taxidermist

    Taxidermist Collector of US/IL/RU/DE

    With a very hard work of most talented designers, I believe Charles could appear not as a buffoon on a coin. Yes, I think this possibility exists.

    I`d prefer those heads to stay on 19-20th century coinage. UK got enough symbolism to design a great looking coin without them, especially if Britannia is involved.
     
  11. princeofwaldo

    princeofwaldo Grateful To Be eX-I/T!

    Which side, exactly, is Charles' good side? From the top looking down?
     
  12. chrisild

    chrisild Coin Collector

    While I am glad that I live in a republic, I do not understand that Charles-bashing, and find it quite annoying. Do you become king only after winning some kind of beauty contest? ;)

    That Britannia design is pretty good in my opinion. If she did not look down, I would find it even better. And yes, a 60p coin would have been nice, also because the piece was apparently not intended for general circulation anyway ...

    Christian
     
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  13. princeofwaldo

    princeofwaldo Grateful To Be eX-I/T!

    It could be worse for Charles, he could have ended-up like Erik XIV of Sweden and gone insane after being turned down on half a dozen marriage proposals.

    http://www.stacksbowers.com/BrowseAuctions/LotDetail/tabid/227/AuctionID/6111/Lot/40006/Default.aspx
     
  14. chrisild

    chrisild Coin Collector

    Note to self: Avoid pea soup. ;)
     
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  15. Bart9349

    Bart9349 Junior Member

    A portrait sadly rejected for a British coin design:

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  16. scottishmoney

    scottishmoney Buh bye

  17. mlov43

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    Ugly people of the world unite! Yeah, Charles and I can't really help that we're ugly. Sheesh.


    Right... what's with her looking down? Kinda looks a little "defeated"-looking, while the engraving of the "flowing skirt" around her shapely hind-end hints a little flirty(?)
     
  18. Blissskr

    Blissskr Well-Known Member

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    I kind of like the standing Britannia design, I probably would pick one up but that's a really expensive ounce of silver.
     
  19. Paul M.

    Paul M. Well-Known Member

    She seems to be looking down at her pet lion?
     
  20. chrisild

    chrisild Coin Collector

    Don't really find Camilla terribly attractive either, but at least she does not use the infantile (head down, eyes up) body language that Diana was famous for. The royal portrait however would feature Charles, not his wife. The effigy used in 2008 (on the coins issued for his 60th birthday) looks pretty good in my opinion.

    And yes, may well be that Britannia looks at the lion's head, but I like designs where she, or Una, has a different "viewing angle". The overall design of that coin I like.

    As for a Wilbert Awdry coin, I suppose that such an idea was "born" out of the desire to honor a certain tank engine, not the man behind it. ;) So it was probably a good idea to not design and issue the coin. Besides, he died in 1997, and maybe issuing a coin in 2011 was considered early by some.

    Christian
     
  21. loopytoad74

    loopytoad74 Active Member

    They could be looking for new pole dancing models.lol..in that case sign me up if they dont mind a fuller figure,would have to be a very big coin though.:)
     
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