That's good. I love the Taku. Except.... ... the Fijian coat of arms is 2 badly drawn dudes in skirts. A double tails Taku would be a winner.
Imo the first issue release around 2012 have gills. That problem have been fixed since been commented by the public. maybe could be valuable. Any thought on that.
I'd be surprised if anyone in the future will really care. Can you imagine someone saying 'I'm not buying that ancient Roman coin I love because it has Julius Ceaser's head on it!" Time will make it historic and irrelevant. As for personal preference, I'm with you
Did you know we will have prince charles 2nd will be on our coins next{unless we become a republic or if he dies}.They can not leap frog him like some people think.
I thought prince charles would become King George or something. I heard they were going to drop the King Charles bit as it was unlucky...might have been a dream though.
In years to come Lizzy maybe recognised similar to the sovereigns. Young Head Old Head Dead Head Cheers markcoinoz
How many Female World War II vets you know look like Heidi Klum? In answer to your question the Dictator in charge of Fiji has evicted Her Maj from the coins for 2013 (I've met him - rather antisocial I thought, didn't buy his rounds in the Mess). The resulting coin is less than impressive. There's a load of Republics who don't have the Queen on their coins that issue Bullion Coins. China, Belarus, Laos, North Korea, Russia, Somalia, Iran, Syria, France, Turkmenistan, Peoples Democratic Republic of Congo, Venezuela. They've all thrown off the outdated notion of Hereditary Principle and look how free and happy their people are. Not sure about the US though - early days and all that.
I find that Queen picture just boring. You sit there, purposely bought X different coins with oxes rabbits snakes mapleleafs etc, and they all share the same backyard. By now even an old backyard. I want my silver to impress / shine / 'looking good / appear precious / indicate 'Value' in all ways / etc, and that Queen picture on a whole variety of coins is like a house where someone scratched 'Killroy was here' on every painting.
That is a beauty of a coin....Id much rather have that than one side of the coins I look at, I have to face Lizzy the lizard
In Commonwealth countries they have nice old lady on coins. In Kazakhstan they have archer which is preparing to shoot the enemy: [img=FluxBB bbcode King]http://www.numismaster.com/numis/images/coty2010/Historical_Kazakhstan.jpg[/img] "To crush you enemis, to see them driven before you and hear lamentations of their women". (Conan). No queen on our coins as well: [img=FluxBB bbcode Nope]http://www.evronumizmatiki.eu/SpletnaStran/Slike/zbirateljski_kovanci_planica.png[/img] Turkmenistan - president: [img=FluxBB bbcode Nope]http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/uploaded/spica/20101113_820.jpg[/img] North Korea: hammer and sickle and rocket! [img=FluxBB bbcode Rocket]http://www.nkeconwatch.com/nk-uploads/silver-coin-2010.jpg[/img] Year of the dragon? Pfffff. In Russia they slay dragons (kill them before they grow!): [img=FluxBB bbcode dragon]http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/350992/102043153/stock-photo-russian-silver-coin-izoilrovano-on-a-white-background-102043153.jpg[/img] In Commonwealth countries they put only Queen on the coin. In Russia they put also the king! [img=FluxBB bbcode King]http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/upload/public/docimages/Image/h/j/o/Russian-coin-commeorative-medal.jpg[/img] Hail to the king baby. In our country we have church on basically every hill. In Soviet Russia they melted bells and made tanks: [img=FluxBB bbcode Rocket]http://www.flamesofwar.com/Portals/0/all_images/Historical/Eastern-Front/LW-Eastfront-08.jpg[/img]
Actually they aren't, http://currencies.wikia.com/wiki/Noah's_Ark It's typical for private mints to try to put a legal tender currency on their coins, because in several countries this means a reduced tax rate. Some appear to be scams though, alike those Andorra coins with the 'Diner' currency, which is according to EU law text not granted a legal tender status. Not in the EU and also not in Andorra itself, even not before it joined the common currency Euro zone.
