# Queen Elizabeth And British Money

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-and-british-money/559048>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 1, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-and-british-money/559048 "2010-11-01T03:46:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-and-british-money/559048/41 "2010-11-04T01:05:54Z")

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> [@Malacandra](#):
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> But if you see any George VI coins in circulation in the UK, it’s by mistake. … No pre-decimal coinage is intentionally still in circulation today.

Fair enough. I was extrapolating from my experience in Canada, where the currency has always (?) been decimal and George VI coins still pop up from time to time. (For the Americans, a coin of similar age and prevalence would be the [wheat penny](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_cent).)

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-and-british-money/559048/42 "2010-11-04T02:56:53Z")

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> [@AWB](#):
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> In the US, President Lincoln died 145 years ago. But coins with his image can still be found in circulation.

That were minted during his presidency?

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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-and-british-money/559048/43 "2010-11-15T01:18:36Z")

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> [@Cunctator](#):
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> That were minted during his presidency?

Sorry, a bit of American-context humor there. _None_ of our currency has any living individuals depicted. The penny (or one cent piece, as its official name) has had Lincoln’s visage since 1909, the centennial of his birth. And from 1959 to 2008, the obverse side has pictured the Lincoln Memorial.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-elizabeth-and-british-money/559048/44 "2010-11-15T02:08:42Z")

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> [@MikeS](#):
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> Fair enough. I was extrapolating from my experience in Canada, where the currency has always (?) been decimal…

[The Canadian pound](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_pound). In the mid-19th century, the various colonies that would become Canada switched over to decimal dollar systems, which were slowly united.

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