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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;geordiecoinman, post: 879396, member: 25040&quot;]These last two coins are my George VI shilling and threepence coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The shilling&#039;s observe, omits part of the wording around the outside, and this is more to do with space than political changes. The observe of this coin is quite unusual, a lion sitting a stride the crown of Britain, with the date wrote across. The reverse also has the remaining words omitted from the front (due to space issues). I quite like this coin, mostly due to it&#039;s reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>The threepence coin is a dodecagon, or twelve-sided shape, an unusual design, and we British still use a multiple-sided coin today (the fifty pence piece is a heptagon). The observe has all the typical wording, whilst the reverese displays the coin type, mint year and an image of several flowers, which I believe are poppies growing (for anyone who doesn&#039;t know why poppies are significant to the British, it is because poppies were the only flowers which grew upon the battlefields of the first world war, and are now worn on armistice day (11th November, the end of WWI), which is a day for remembering those who have given their life to defend our shores).</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are wondering why George VI is facing the same way as his father, George V, this is because he actually succeded Edward VIII who abdicated so he could marry Wallis Simpson, a divorcee. He was forced to abdicate as, whilst their love was known, if he married her, he would now longer be allowed to inhierate the throne, as the hier to the British throne is not suppossed to marry a divorcee, nor can they divorce and remarry unless the previous spouse is deceased (this is why his royal higness Prince Charles was allowed to marry her royal higness Camila), so Edward VIII&#039;s coins faced towards the right, then George VI succeded him when he abdicatted, so he faced the left.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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