Well there will be new Postboxes, stamps, banknotes and coins that will get redesigned and put into circulation.
New Postboxes will have the initials of Prince Charles, previous ones with Elizabeth and ones as far back as Victoria will remain in use.
Stamps will have Charles portrait on them and for the last few months new stamps have barcodes on them and all older ones are being withdrawn 31st January 2023.
Banknotes either the one with Charles on it will circulate along side the Elizabeth Polymer notes or they would be withdrawn a few years later when the new ones appear either next year or 2024.
Coins will just have Charles portrait facing left and both coins will circulate along side each other, The reason why we had only Elizabeth coins in circulation is due to Decimalisation before then it was common to see coins in circulation dating back to Queen Victoria on the coppers (Florin as well) and George III on Silver coinage. Most likely we would see the new coins released in 2023. Because there was only two coins minted in 2022 so far for circulation the Platinum Jubilee 50p and pride 50p.
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End of an era. I just bought the 2023 $5 Year of The Rabbit coin. 2023 coin with Elizabeth on it is pretty cool. We will finally have multiple monarchs circulating alongside each other again. Sad day for millions.
End of an era. I just bought the 2023 $5 Year of The Rabbit coin. 2023 coin with Elizabeth on it is pretty cool.
This is also a reason why I don't like the minting of coins with next year's date on them. Anything could happen, and now there are coins with a monarch who never lived the year written on them. We are only in early September, so let the 2023 dated coins be minted in 2023.
End of an era indeed. I wonder how long it will take before new coins with the King's head begin to circulate.
As a bit of an impulse purchase, I ordered the 2023 Year of the Rabbit 50 Cents from Auatralia. I doubt it will be valuable in the future, but it's fun to have nonetheless.
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Queen Elizabeth II dedicated herself to her duty and carried it out well on every occasion, to the very end. The world has lost its most experienced head of state.
It is the end of an era that will bring many changes in numismatics, to coins and notes.
Rest In Peace, Your Majesty, it couldn’t have been the easiest of lives to lead but you never gave it up. Though I believe in independence, I appreciate the benefits of tradition and history and what can come from old connections in the Commonwealth..
(Hmm, new collection idea - a coin of the standard unit of currency (dollar, pound) from every remaining Commonwealth country with QEII showing 2022, and the next for KCIII showing 2023? 🤔 )
Queen Elizabeth II dedicated herself to her duty and carried it out well on every occasion, to the very end. The world has lost its most experienced head of state.
It is the end of an era that will bring many changes in numismatics, to coins and notes.
RIP QEII
It is a shame the Republic of Ireland never came back into the Commonwealth under her reign.
Hopefully, the Republic of Ireland will come back into the Commonwealth under King Charles III's reign - as he has been to Ireland quite a few times, & has even been to Aras an Uachtarain ( the former Viceregal Lodge & Government House ).
Of course, Queen Elizabeth II's state visit to Ireland was a historic event in its own right.
I heard. I now look at these coins in my collection with a certain fondness and melancholy that I have not felt for a long time. As for the rest of Hong Kong, well, I predict that everyone's going to scramble for those last Queen Elizabeth coins still in circulation.
To commemorate, I'm wearing a necklace with a 1968 Hong Kong 50c pendant today.
The Queen may be gone, but may her memory live forever.
"Life is all about being too wrapped up in the now to care about the future. When the future becomes the past, you start to regret what you've done."
For a brief time, a dishonest editor was able to shorten the reign of Louis XIV by removing the period of the regency (when he was a child) from the count.
Facts are facts. Louis XIV was king for 72 years, including his minority. Alfonso XIII of Spain and Jean I of France were both King from the day they were born, though Jean “ruled” for only five days until his (suspicious) death.
Very sadden with the news. She will be missed greatly. For me she has been there around fifty tears of coin collecting. And now it seems as there is a whole there
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A sad loss for the whole world. She was a passionate professional who just served her public every day of her life. To deal with the strife and stress of her family, she handled it so well.
Such a lovely lady and sovereign. She will be missed and beloved by all of us.
It was 5.34am Friday 9 Sep our time. I know as I was delivering the papers and the radio was on, from 4am normal programming was enhanced with reports from Balmoral of the Royal Family being called to Her Majesty's bedside. Frequent updates came through between 4 and 5am (5 - 6pm UK time). At 5 I heard the Queen was under Medical supervision but the illness was not declared. Radio DJ's speculated it must be serious - at 5.30am the news came on and then at 5.34 in the sports news - the following happened. Breaking News “Buckingham Palace has announced Her Majesty the Queen has died peacefully in her sleep” and it was that sudden. I remember calling out “Oh my God” and crossing myself being the good Catholic boy I am and then it was non stop after that.
Yesterday my partner and myself (He is an 81 year old Englishman) signed the condolences book in our Library.
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For many years there were those who said he should have taken a different name, perhaps George VII, assuming (wrongly) that a given name could determine your fate based on the history of those who had that name.
A given name can have consequences, but only because of the parents' stupidity. For example: Bernard Bernard (same first and last) or the same name as a star (if your name is Presley, puh-lease, don't call your son Elvis). In Ontario about 15 years ago a story made the news about someone who changed his name; he was of German descent: Adolf Fitler.
And if you think about it, the argument that Charles is a bad name means that the then Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip chose a bad name for their own son.
For many years there were those who said he should have taken a different name, perhaps George VII, assuming (wrongly) that a given name could determine your fate based on the history of those who had that name.
A given name can have consequences, but only because of the parents' stupidity. For example: Bernard Bernard (same first and last) or the same name as a star (if your name is Presley, puh-lease, don't call your son Elvis). In Ontario about 15 years ago a story made the news about someone who changed his name; he was of German descent: Adolf Fitler.
And if you think about it, the argument that Charles is a bad name means that the then Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip chose a bad name for their own son.
I do agree that it’s a bit strange QEII chose that particular name for her son given that she was heir apparent for a long time by the time she had Charles. That said, whatever one thinks of Charles, on a personal note I think he started on the right foot by continuing to embrace that name. For all you know, he could leave a new legacy where future British/English monarchs (if the monarchy keeps existing) will not have to think twice on adopting a regnal Charles IV name
I felt that way as well, the best way to turn around the connotations with the name is to claim it and make a new history for the name.
The question of whether he’d “take the job” or abdicate to William right away is also an old one - personally, i wonder if that was discussed and if William said “I’ve got three kids under 10 and I have personal experience of the pressures on royal kids.. give me ten years till they are quite grown, then I’ll take the crown, if you want”..
I felt that way as well, the best way to turn around the connotations with the name is to claim it and make a new history for the name.
The question of whether he’d “take the job” or abdicate to William right away is also an old one - personally, i wonder if that was discussed and if William said “I’ve got three kids under 10 and I have personal experience of the pressures on royal kids.. give me ten years till they are quite grown, then I’ll take the crown, if you want”..
King Charles himself has said he will NEVER abdicate - as the Crown is his by right!
I agree with His Majesty on this, considering he has declared himself to serving the rest of his life as both King & Head of the Commonwealth until his dying day.
The question of whether he’d “take the job” or abdicate to William right away is also an old one - personally, i wonder if that was discussed and if William said “I’ve got three kids under 10 and I have personal experience of the pressures on royal kids.. give me ten years till they are quite grown, then I’ll take the crown, if you want”..
I doubt Charles will even live another ten years …
The question of whether he’d “take the job” or abdicate to William right away is also an old one - personally, i wonder if that was discussed and if William said “I’ve got three kids under 10 and I have personal experience of the pressures on royal kids.. give me ten years till they are quite grown, then I’ll take the crown, if you want”..
I doubt Charles will even live another ten years …
King Charles will live longer than that.
He is proving himself to be a wonderful King so far.
Charles had no choice but to assume his responsibility as heir to the throne. He was next in line and to become king was his fate. This is how British monarchy works. He simply could not conceptualize a scheme to get himself out of it.
A very interesting example of a similar situation actually happened in France in 1830. While, unlike England / Great Britain / the UK, women were never computed in the French line of succession, otherwise the “Loi fondamentale” made kingship a duty, not an option that could be turned down. So, on August 2nd 1830 Charles X abdicated to pass the crown not to his son (Louis Duc d'Angoulême, sometimes wrongly called “Louis XIX”) but to Henri Comte de Chambord (sometimes wrongly called “Henri V”). The French “Légitimistes” claimed (and still claim) that Charles X's abdication was “sans effet”, i.e. that it was null and void because he did not even have the power to abdicate.
It would have been quite a conundrum for French monarchists and “constitutionalist” to explain the legitimacy of “Henri V” if Louis-Philippe had not taken the crown for himself but gone along with Charles X's succession plan.
As for Charles III's length of reign, no-one knows… But he is likely to live at least to be 80─85, no? One thing to consider, however, is whether some yet unknown long term effects of COVID (which he had) will manifest themselves.
There are some specialists ─and I'm not talking about conspiracy theorists─ who suggest that the Queen's health may have declined so rapidly because of long COVID effects.
And I do agree with ashlobo that Charles was right to keep his name.
If Canada keeps his effigy on coins (which would be more interesting than some sort of coat of arms), I just hope that they will remove the “F: D:” legend, or else at least that they will modify it to “FF: D:” (which, I admit, is most unlikely to happen).
