Over on the OCRT site on religious tolerance, there’s a thread on the In God We Trust motto on U.S. coinage.
Scrolling down a ways, they say that other countries don’t have religious mottos on their coinage or currency, then give three examples, including the “Elizabeth II D.G. Regina D.F.” which is found on U.K coinage [“Elizabeth II, By the Grace of God Queen, Defender of the Faith”]
In Canada, we use an abbreviated form, simply “Elizabeth II D.G. Regina.”
What about other Commonwealth countries that have the Queen on their coins? Do you also have the “D.G. Regina” or variant thereof?
As part of the People’s Republic of China - a communist country - Hong Kong shouldn’t have the queen on its coins. But coins more than 5 or 6 years old do, and you often get them in your change.
This 20c coin I just dug out of my wallest has “Queen Elizabeth the Second” (all in upper case, actually), in English only.
A few weeks ago, I found a 1981 ten-cent coin from the “East Caribbean States” in my change. On one side it has a sailing ship, and the denomination; on the other side it has a portrait of the Queen, and the words “QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND”.
The Jubilee-commemorative Canadian fifty-cent coin has simply D. G. REGINA, and the “Royal Monogram”, E[sup]II[/sup]R.
A quick trot through websites for Fiji and Jersey suggests that their coins carry the words “Queen Elizabeth the Second”, with no reference to God.
Many (most?) Commonwealth countries are republics, and don’t have the Queen’s head on the coins at all. And presumably Tonga has the head of the King of Tonga on its coins.
Australia is not a republic (yet).
We voted it down at a referendum a couple of years back.
We are still a contitutional monarchy (I think) in that we have a monarch as our abosolute ruler, but we have a constitution that doesn’t allow the monarch to interfere.
On $1 and $2 coins, ditto with the Elizabeth II, and then Australia [year].
On notes, the $5 note used to be called the Queens Pink (it was a purplish/pinkish ploymer with Her. Maj. on one side). Now there is no Queen in site, with Catherine Helen Spence and Henry Parkes adorning the two sides. So no dedication to Missy there either.