Favorite British Monarch coin design?

My two favorites are King/Emperors George V and VI. (Photo:Tumblr)

George V, both colonial portraits and his homeland one are the best !

Although I must say the flaming hair portrait of William III is rather good !

All portraits of George VI have been my favorite.

He has his nice looks, I guess. Maybe that's just me.  

 

George 5th for sure.  The beard looks so regal.  I wish I could grow one like that, mine's too curly and I have to keep it cropped short or it looks a mess.

You couldn't walk round with something like that in ya face now you would have ones face smashed in !

I don't know about that.  Here's one of my favourite New Zealand musicians Steve Abel

http://www.muzic.net.nz/artists/2233/steve-abel

And local Dunedin personality and magician Jonathan Usher

http://www.elections2010.co.nz/2010/candidates/jonathan-usher

I think it looks quite distinguished

The first one looks like a 21c Darwin ha !

Yeah, his music is a bit weird but I like it. The album "flax happy" is on heavy rotation....and of course he's rocking the beard and mo combo.

My favourite portrait of Georgie boy is the admiral's portrait from the New Zealand stamps. It's a pity they don't have that portrait on coins.

http://stamps.nzpost.co.nz/new-zealand/1926/king-george-v-admirals

That's awesome !

The "imperial" or "Colonial" designs are better than the UK designs, in my opinion

George V closely followed by Edward VII.

Queen Victoria (my girl) of course, although the jubilee coins make her look like a grumpy triple-chinned  fishwife. The young head coins are pretty but I always liked the final issue with the widow's veil... they look majestic. The best of all is the Gothic type / colonial.

While the coins of her two successors are masterful they are pretty much single issues whereas QV during her long and glorious reign over the heathens was depicted in each of her stages from young Princess to venerable Empress. For that reason I would say they were my favorite. I swear I can hear Kipling or William Blake every time I look at one.

By contrast the coins of our current monarch are bland and lifeless.

I wonder if there is any truth in an old theory of mine - a nation's health and robustness can be determined by it's coins?

P.S. I have been growing a beard and a long flowing moustache for two years now. I look like a Confederate cavalry officer. I'm think of changing my name to Nathan Forrest.

Queen Victoria's Gothic, Orient and Young Heads are the best, I think.
By Orient, I mean:

My favourite is this one of King James I from a holed shilling from 1605/06 - so much personality for such an old coin. The king was all of 38 when this portrait was designed, yet he looks like a distinguished old man.

 

 

 

I have always loved the permed wiggs and perukes of the later 1600s and 1700s too.

 

   

The wigs had mercury and lice in them, but who can stop fashion?

 

 

Our aging and obese late Hanoverians were all about vanity and loved the wreaths and dominant looks. George IV replaced the bloated look with a rather younger and hairier one when he was well into his 60s and the 5XL size range!

 

 

Early Gothic Victoria is elegant too - none of the modern monarchs are that striking.

 

  

But I love the generic flowing locks of the medieval king portraits from Edward I to Henry VII and then the flowing hair Renaissance page boy look of the Henry VII and early Henry VIII coins.

 

My favourite is Elizabeth I - but her coin portraits never really reached the height of the portraits of her beauty - with the over the top bejewelled dresses, heart shaped ruffs and puffs and more make up than a drag queen or Zsa Zsa Gabor or Joan Rivers. None of my coins have decent portraits

 

 

This the best of a very bad lot.