CHAPPIDI ABHIRATH REDDY
C/O COL GKS REDDY
Secunderabad - 500015
INDEX
SUMMARY OF COUNTRIES IN ALBUM NO – TWO
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
S NO COUNTRY PAGE NO COIN NOS REMARKS
- UK (Current Coins) 1 to 5 1 – 84
- UK (Obsolete Coins) 5 to 7 85 – 124
- France 7 to 8 125 – 148
- Greece 9 149 - 156
- Finland 9 to 10 157 - 168
- Portugal 10 to 11 169 - 180
- Romania 11 181 - 186
- Yugoslavia 12 187 - 194
- Nederland 12 195 - 212
- Italy 13 to 14 213 - 238
- Iceland 14 233 - 238
- Denmark 14 to 15 239 - 256
- Czechoslovakia 15 257- 262
The Current Coins of UK
The standard circulating coinage of the United Kingdom is denominated in pounds sterling (symbol "£"), and, since the introduction of the two-pound coin in 1998, ranges in value from one penny to two pounds. Since decimalisation, on 15 February 1971, the pound has been divided into 100 (new) pence. From the 16th century until decimalisation, the pound was divided into 20 shillings, each of 12 (old) pence. British coins are minted by the Royal Mint inLlantrisant, Wales. The Royal Mint also commissions the coins' designs. As of 30 March 2010, there were an estimated 28 billion coins circulating in the United Kingdom.
The first decimal coins were circulated in 1968. These were the five pence (5p) and ten pence (10p), and had values of one shilling (1/-) and two shillings (2/-), respectively, under the pre-decimal £sd system. The decimal coins are minted in copper-plated steel (previously bronze), nickel-plated steel, cupro-nickel and nickel-brass. The two-pound coin is bimetallic. The coins are discs, except for the twenty pence and fifty-pence pieces, both of which are heptagonal curve of constant width. All the circulating coins have an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse, and various national and regional designs, and the denomination, on the reverse. The circulating coins, excepting the two-pound coin, were redesigned in 2008, keeping the sizes and compositions unchanged, but introducing reverse designs that each depict a part of the Royal Shield of Arms and form the whole shield when they are placed together in the appropriate arrangement. The exception, the 2008 one-pound coin, depicts the entire shield of arms on the reverse. All current coins carry a Latininscription whose full form is ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA FIDEI DEFENSOR, meaning "Elizabeth II, by the grace of God, Queen and Defender of the Faith".
My collection of UK Current coins is reasonably elaborate, as all my three daughters are residing in London and they are constantly on the lookout for circulating coins, which are not in my collection. I will be presenting my collection in four different blogs ie 1 d to 20 d as one blog, 50 d, £ 1 and £ 2 & 5 as other blogs.
Two & Five Pound Coins
Note - Some of the images of coins in my collection, have been taken from the Gallery to the extent available, to save on time & effort involved in photography & editing
Two & Five Pound Coins
Two
Pounds – Queen Head by Rank Broadley -
2000
Two
Pounds – Queen Head by Rank Broadley -
2000
Two
Pounds – Marconi Commemoration - 2001
Two
Pounds – Reverse DNA Commemoration – 2003
Two
Pounds – Trevithick Steam Engine Commemoration – 2004
Two Pounds – Gun Powder Plot
Commemoration - 2005
Two
Pounds – World War II Commemoration - 2005
Two
Pounds – Reverse Abolition of Slave Trade 1807 – 2007
Two
Pounds – Reverse Tercentenary of Union of England – 2007
Two
Pounds – 250th Anniversary of Birth of Robert Burns – 2009
Two
Pounds – Charles Darwin Bicentenary - 2009
Two
Pounds – 150 Years of Nursing - 2010
Two
Pounds – The Mary Rose – 2011
Five Pound Coins
Five
Pounds – Queen Mother 80th Birth Day - 1980
Five
Pounds - 90 Years of Queen Mother – 1990
Five
Pounds - 70 th Birth Day of Queen Elizebeth II - 1996
Five
Pounds – 100 Years of Queen Mother – 2000
Five
Pounds – Princess Diana – 2007
Five
Pounds - 450 Years of Queen Elizebeth I – 2008
Note - Some of the images of coins in my collection, have been taken from the Gallery to the extent available, to save on time & effort involved in photography & editing
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