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What was the last coin made wholly or partly with gold or silver that bore the image of Queen Elizabeth II? So far I've found that Canada maintained a silver coinage after 1968. Are there any other Commonwealth countries that maintained silver coinage even after that?— azuki ( talk · contribs · email) 09:58, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
BTW that discussion and [5] this one does mention Gibraltar issuing silver and gold coins at face value. But particularly the later discussion and also [6] seems to confirm they didn't actually circulate in practice.
It seems the Canadian government did something similar recently [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] which had similar issues. Actually even banks sometimes would reject them, at least in part because they couldn't do anything with them but send them to the mint since no one would want them. I mean maybe a tiny number of people would convince shop keepers or whatever to take them, and a tiny number of these would convince some customer to take them, but it must have been minuscule even in the Canadian case. (Probably non existent in Gibraltar.)
By comparison, a commemorative 50 cent coin was issued in NZ in 2015 with 1 million coins being minted [12]. It was coloured and had a special front but just used ordinary metal and was designed in cooperation with manufacturers of coin handling machines that it would be recognised and accepted. I bought a bunch of these when they were issued and did actually normally manage to convince check out staff or shop keepers to accept them. And of course self service check out machines also accepted them without issue. The later, and I assume some of the former would have also given them out. (I expect they were especially used when buying poppies or donating for ANZAC day.) I doubt I was the only one to do this, so these probably really circulated, although not much. (I never received one but I hardly use cash normally.) You'd probably need something similar for one of these precious metal coins to actually circulate to any real extent.
Nil Einne ( talk) 16:08, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
Why did the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic change its name to Artsakh? It's easy to find references to the renaming, but they're mixed with other stuff (e.g. a US city renaming a street to "Artsakh Avenue"), and I'm not seeing explanations for the renaming. Nagorno-Karabakh constitutional referendum, 2017 quotes an Abkhaz politician saying that Nagorno-Karabakh politicians had expressed worry that the use of the name "Artsakh" and "Nagorno-Karabakh" by Azerbaijan for its athletic teams and artistic initiatives abroad might create the wrong impression of the region's reality. Was this a reason, and if so, was it the reason? Sports and art confusion with the enemy, without other reasons, would be surprisingly small reasons for a name change, and foreign politicians (not having a stake in the matter and not being scholars of the subject) aren't the best source for such a thing anyway. Nyttend ( talk) 20:01, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
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What was the last coin made wholly or partly with gold or silver that bore the image of Queen Elizabeth II? So far I've found that Canada maintained a silver coinage after 1968. Are there any other Commonwealth countries that maintained silver coinage even after that?— azuki ( talk · contribs · email) 09:58, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
BTW that discussion and [5] this one does mention Gibraltar issuing silver and gold coins at face value. But particularly the later discussion and also [6] seems to confirm they didn't actually circulate in practice.
It seems the Canadian government did something similar recently [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] which had similar issues. Actually even banks sometimes would reject them, at least in part because they couldn't do anything with them but send them to the mint since no one would want them. I mean maybe a tiny number of people would convince shop keepers or whatever to take them, and a tiny number of these would convince some customer to take them, but it must have been minuscule even in the Canadian case. (Probably non existent in Gibraltar.)
By comparison, a commemorative 50 cent coin was issued in NZ in 2015 with 1 million coins being minted [12]. It was coloured and had a special front but just used ordinary metal and was designed in cooperation with manufacturers of coin handling machines that it would be recognised and accepted. I bought a bunch of these when they were issued and did actually normally manage to convince check out staff or shop keepers to accept them. And of course self service check out machines also accepted them without issue. The later, and I assume some of the former would have also given them out. (I expect they were especially used when buying poppies or donating for ANZAC day.) I doubt I was the only one to do this, so these probably really circulated, although not much. (I never received one but I hardly use cash normally.) You'd probably need something similar for one of these precious metal coins to actually circulate to any real extent.
Nil Einne ( talk) 16:08, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
Why did the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic change its name to Artsakh? It's easy to find references to the renaming, but they're mixed with other stuff (e.g. a US city renaming a street to "Artsakh Avenue"), and I'm not seeing explanations for the renaming. Nagorno-Karabakh constitutional referendum, 2017 quotes an Abkhaz politician saying that Nagorno-Karabakh politicians had expressed worry that the use of the name "Artsakh" and "Nagorno-Karabakh" by Azerbaijan for its athletic teams and artistic initiatives abroad might create the wrong impression of the region's reality. Was this a reason, and if so, was it the reason? Sports and art confusion with the enemy, without other reasons, would be surprisingly small reasons for a name change, and foreign politicians (not having a stake in the matter and not being scholars of the subject) aren't the best source for such a thing anyway. Nyttend ( talk) 20:01, 6 November 2018 (UTC)