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This is a list of people depicted on coins in present and past circulation throughout the world, listed in two sections - coins in current circulation and coins no longer in circulation. Note that this list does not include people who have only appeared on banknotes, and is of actual people and not deities or fictional persons.
The new definitive coin has two bees on the reverse and Charles’ official coinage portrait on the other side. First £1 coins to feature King enter circulation Skip to main content
A 50p will gradually enter circulation to mark the historic moment, and coins featuring the King and Queen Elizabeth II will co-circulate. King Charles coin portrait unveiled by the Royal Mint ...
The Royal Mint has begun the circulation of the first coins featuring the head of King Charles III. Nearly five million of such coins, created by sculptor Martin Jennings, will begin entering the ...
Likewise, the Bank of England said banknotes with a portrait of Charles were expected to enter circulation by the middle of 2024, and it would reveal images of the updated notes by the end of the ...
The copper coins were so heavy that Charles Dickens in Nicholas Nickleby had Mr Mantalini contemplate suicide by drowning himself in the Thames, his pockets filled with halfpennies. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] Thomas Graham , the Master of the Mint, in 1859 persuaded William Gladstone , the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the state of the copper currency ...
A crowned portrait King Charles III will for the first time feature on new commemorative coins created to celebrate his upcoming coronation. The effigy has been designed by artist and sculptor ...
The Petition Crown was a pattern coin produced in 1663 by Thomas Simon, a celebrated English medallist and coin-designer. The coin was submitted directly by the artist to King Charles II as a personal 'petition' against the contemporary coins designed by the Flemish brothers John and Joseph Roettiers, and for the further Royal consideration that only Simon's designs be used for all future ...