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St. Helena and Ascension: unadopted circulation designs

Started by <k>, December 24, 2016, 06:33:06 PM

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The issued design looks rather different.

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St Helena-Ascension 25p sketch#.jpg



St Helena-Ascension 25p sketch.jpg


Originally there was going to be a 25 pence coin.

However, St Helena decided against it.

The suggested design showed Jonathan the giant tortoise, a local animal,

He is shown against a background of Plantation House, the government building.


A Royal Mint Advisory Committee member disliked the design.

He suggested it looked like a tortoise entering a canning factory.
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St Helena-Ascension 50p sketch.jpg

Originally the 50 pence was going to feature the arms of the Honourable East India Company.
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St Helena-Ascension sketches by Mike Hibbit-.jpg


Two versions of the turtle on the 50 pence. 

Rather poor scans, unfortunately.

The placement of the bubbles and the ripples was queried.
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The issued design.

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St Helena-Ascension 1 pound sketch~-.jpg



St Helena-Ascension sketches by Mike Hibbit~.jpg


The sooty tern, or "Wideawake" bird, appeared on the pound coin.

Here are two versions. Once more, the scans are very poor.

Hopefully you can see that one design included a pound sign.

For some reason, nobody liked the pound sign.
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#21

One pound.  Sooty tern, or "Wideawake".  Onychoprion fuscatus.

Incuse edge inscription: "COLONY OF ST HELENA".


NOTE: Since 2006 the edge inscription reads: "ST. HELENA ISLAND".

Notice the period after "ST", which did not appear on earlier edge inscriptions.
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St Helena-Ascension 2 pounds sketch#.jpg

Originally there was going to be a 2 pound coin.

I imagine that this would have been intended for collectors only.

This design shows Lot on St Helena.



St Helena-Lot and Lot's Wife.jpg

"Lot" and "Lot's Wife" are two solitary pillars of rock topping two valleys near Sandy Bay.

They takie their names from the story of Lot in the Book of Genesis.
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#23
St Helena-Ascension 2 pounds sketch#Jacob's Ladder.jpg

Another candidate for the 2 pound coin was Jacob's Ladder.



St Helena-Jacob's_Ladder.jpg

Jacob's Ladder is a run of 699 steps.

It starts from Jamestown in the floor of the valley.

It reaches the fort at Ladder Hill on the western valley slope.
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St Helena-Ascension 2 pounds sketch~.jpg



St Helena-Ascension 2 pounds sketch.jpg


Yet another option was Longwood House.

It was the residence of Napoleon Bonaparte during his exile on the island.
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St Helena-Ascension 1 pound sketch.jpg


This is a fitting point to show the design of Napoleon.

It that was originally going to grace the one pound coin.

It is taken from the painting "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" by Jacques-Louis David.
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St Helena-Ascension 4 pounds sketch~.jpg



St Helena-Ascension 4 pounds sketch.jpg


Finally, there was going to be a four pounds coin.

Presumably it was just meant for collectors.

Ultimately, it was never issued.

The design showed an East Indiaman sailing ship of around 1815.
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Alan71

It's interesting about the 25p.  St Helena-Ascension didn't introduce the 20p until 1998 - did they really spend 16 years trying to decide which denomination to go with?

Prior to 1984, they must have used UK coinage.  Presumably the 20p was never issued there in 1982.

By the way, what's the correct way of pronouncing Helena?  I've always pronounced it as Helen with an "a" on the end (I was probably thinking of the 1980s Czech tennis player, Helena Sukova).  However, on the The One Show tonight, a reporter pronounced it Heleena.  Which is right?

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Quote from: Alan71 on May 24, 2017, 09:34:21 PM
It's interesting about the 25p.  St Helena-Ascension didn't introduce the 20p until 1998 - did they really spend 16 years trying to decide which denomination to go with?

I doubt it. They just probably had no use for one at first.

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Prior to 1984, they must have used UK coinage.  Presumably the 20p was never issued there in 1982.

They did. You mean the UK 20p? Well, it must have found its way there.

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By the way, what's the correct way of pronouncing Helena?  I've always pronounced it as Helen with an "a" on the end (I was probably thinking of the 1980s Czech tennis player, Helena Sukova).  However, on the The One Show tonight, a reporter pronounced it Heleena.  Which is right?

Heleena, definitely.  And the Nevis in St Kitts and Nevis, over in the Caribbean, is pronounced Neevis. I used to pronounce the Falklands as Forklands before their war, but it's Fawlklands, as I learnt from the news presenters.

 
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