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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1344529, member: 39&quot;]You are definitely not wrong here. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Until 1953, British coins had a somewhat different title of the king (BRITT: OMN: REX) or queen - Elizabeth II was BRITT: OMN: REGINA in her first two years. And &quot;BRITT.&quot; could be a pretty good hint, except ... it was dropped because its use did <i>not</i> refer to the UK alone. It was an abbreviation of BRITTANIARUM OMNIS REX/REGINA which meant something like King/Queen of all British Territories. And that was, in the 1950s, no longer appropriate as many Commonwealth countries got a different political status or became independent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rule of thumb: If you see Elizabeth on a coin but cannot find a country name, the piece is from the UK. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> There are a couple of other countries that do not have their names on the coins either (Austrian-Hungarian Empire until WW1, and the early issues of several euro countries) but by and large coins do indicate their origin ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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