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Coin or Pendant
- Thread starter jasper12
- Start date
Steve(Can)
Well-known member
Hey Jasper...
a couple things going on here.
The horseman slaying the dragon is St. George, the patron saint of Britain. This design has been used on various British and Commonwealth (Australia, Canada, etc...) coins since the early 1800's. In modern times, it was used exclusively on the gold sovereign:
On yours, the date 1951 was used possbily to avoid counterfieting charges, as the sovereign was not minted in that year. For that matter, no coins were minted in 1951 that looked similar to yours.
On the other side of your piece, the bust is of Queen Elizabeth II and the same thing going on with the date. Her image did not appear on coins until 1953. At the time she took the throne, she was 27 years old and the bust used on coinage from 1953-1964 looked like this:
The image of the queen on your piece, is a later bust used from 1965-1989. For example here is a Canadian dime that is similar to the one on your piece.
For interest sake, the D.G. Regina inscription, stands for the latin, "Dei Gratia Regina" which means, "By the Grace of God, Queen"
Hope this helps.
a couple things going on here.
The horseman slaying the dragon is St. George, the patron saint of Britain. This design has been used on various British and Commonwealth (Australia, Canada, etc...) coins since the early 1800's. In modern times, it was used exclusively on the gold sovereign:
On yours, the date 1951 was used possbily to avoid counterfieting charges, as the sovereign was not minted in that year. For that matter, no coins were minted in 1951 that looked similar to yours.
On the other side of your piece, the bust is of Queen Elizabeth II and the same thing going on with the date. Her image did not appear on coins until 1953. At the time she took the throne, she was 27 years old and the bust used on coinage from 1953-1964 looked like this:
The image of the queen on your piece, is a later bust used from 1965-1989. For example here is a Canadian dime that is similar to the one on your piece.
For interest sake, the D.G. Regina inscription, stands for the latin, "Dei Gratia Regina" which means, "By the Grace of God, Queen"
Hope this helps.
It must be a pendant because Queen Elizabeth II was not crowned until after the death of her father in 1952. The 1951 date and the image of her are wrong. She was not queen at that time and the image of her on the first coins where of the young queen and that relief is not of the young queen, more like the middle aged queen.
I have looked at her image on our coins all my life and that profile is more 1970s. The young queen looks well like a young women, she was 25 when she ascended the throne in February 1952. In 1951 the portrait would be of her father George VI. The obverse side looks "coin like" but I am not familiar with it, it might be a copy of an English coin.
It is a confabulated pendant.
A find of different kind. It poses a lot of questions, the biggest one being why, I suppose just decorative.
HH
1859
A picture of the young queen.
http://www.calgarycoin.com/modern/cancen05.jpg
The post 1965 image of the queen.
http://www.calgarycoin.com/modern/cancen07.jpg
I have looked at her image on our coins all my life and that profile is more 1970s. The young queen looks well like a young women, she was 25 when she ascended the throne in February 1952. In 1951 the portrait would be of her father George VI. The obverse side looks "coin like" but I am not familiar with it, it might be a copy of an English coin.
It is a confabulated pendant.
A find of different kind. It poses a lot of questions, the biggest one being why, I suppose just decorative.
HH
1859
A picture of the young queen.
http://www.calgarycoin.com/modern/cancen05.jpg
The post 1965 image of the queen.
http://www.calgarycoin.com/modern/cancen07.jpg
GoGoGopher
New member
Possibly a coat pull that goes on the zipper...Some company was confused on dates????
HH,
HH,
Don Vigando
New member
Dears...
Found the same thing in a little bit better status today in a small shop and bought only because I liked it and without knowing its worth! Unfortunately unabable to post it from my mobile at the moment.
Found the same thing in a little bit better status today in a small shop and bought only because I liked it and without knowing its worth! Unfortunately unabable to post it from my mobile at the moment.