Unadopted crown designs for the Queen's Silver Jubilee 1977-78

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At top you see the sketch of the design that was ultimately chosen.

Beneath it is and image of the issued coin.

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I think the ultimate design was a great improvement over the first attempts.

The whimsical apes "growing" on the wreath are a fine counterpoint to the pompousness of the heraldry.

Peter

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St Helena, Silver Jubilee, 1978.

Here's one I missed, showing a plover.

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Isle of Man. Silver Jubilee appeal of 1977.

Two sketches for coins that were not issued.

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A sketch of the issued coin.

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A sketch of the design issued for the 25th Anniversary of the Queen's Coronation.

It was designed by Leslie Lindsay of the Pobjoy Mint.

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The Royal Mint asked Bernard Sindall to prepare a design for a Jersey 25 pence.

It was intended to commemorate the Queen's Silver Jubilee.

Jersey chose Mont Orgueil Castle as the subject of the design.


The scan below is not of a high quality.

However, the design was criticised because the foreground looked too indistinct.

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The artist added some of the houses along the coast, to liven up the foreground.

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It was felt that the houses dominated the scene, so they were made more distant.

The final design included some boats, depicted after the tide has gone out.

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The issued design.

Curiously, William Gardner did the lettering on the coin.

The two artists were working as a team from their studios.

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The final design included some boats, depicted after the tide has gone out.

See this post and the following one. Only the three rowing boats are beached. The dots in front of the other boats not along the quay are anchor buoys.

Peter

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That makes sense. Bernard Sindall should have included some ripples on the sea to make it obvious. After all, it's a large coin, so he had the room.

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Here is the design from the Royal Mint Advisory Committee Special Meeting 5 July 1976 for the Jersey coin. 

You can read the documents at: http://jerseycoins.com/decimal/RMAC/1977_25.htm

Mr. William Gardner commented as follows: -- "Heraldry of mace backed by arms combined with foliage decoration from the two staple products of potato and tomato.  The wreath could include the flowers of these plants and I think should do more."

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In 1977 Queen Elizabeth II celebrated the 25th anniversary of her accession to the throne.

This anniversary was referred to as the Silver Jubilee.

The UK, the crown dependencies and various British overseas territories issued collector coins to celebrate the occasion.

The Royal Mint (UK) assigned English artist William Gardner to produce some preliminary designs for the coins.

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Here you see one suggested obverse for the crowns.

It uses Arnold Machin's effigy of the Queen.

A crown at that time had a face value of 25 pence.