Collector coins of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha compared

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TDC 2 pounds 1990.jpg

Tristan da Cunha, 2 pounds, 1990.


TDC also issued a 2 pound coin as part of the Queen Mother 90th birthday issues.

The reverse designs of these coins were designed by Leslie Durbin.

See: Queen Mother's 90th birthday commemoratives: flower series of 1990.
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Ascension Island, 50 pence, 2000.


St Helena 50p 2000.jpg

Saint Helena, 50 pence, 2000.


In the year 2000, only Ascension and St Helena issued copper-nickel commemoratives.

This time, the words '50 PENCE' returned to the obverse.

Both coins celebrated the 100th birthday of the Queen Mother.
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Ascension 1 crown 2011.jpg

Ascension Island, 1 crown, 2011.


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Ascension Island, 2 pounds, 2011.


Ascension issued two new collector coins in 2011.

We see that the 50 pence denomination was now gone.

Instead the crown was revived, and we now also had a 2 pound coin.


And there was a change to the obverse of the coins.

It carried Ian Rank-Broadley's uncouped portrait of the Queen.
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Ascension 1 crown 2016.jpg

Ascension, 1 crown, 2016.


From 2016 a new portrait of the Queen was used on the collector coins of Ascension.


Here we see the letters 'PM' on the obverse.

This shows that the coin is a product of the Pobjoy Mint.

Was the earlier portrait change a result of a change in mints, I wonder?
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After 2005 Saint Helena concentrated on gold, silver, plated and coloured coins, often with multiple coins in a series. They are too diverse to describe succinctly and are very different in nature from the previous more traditional issues, so I shall leave the subject of Saint Helena here.
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Tristan da Cunha 1 crown 2005.jpg

Tristan da Cunha, 1 crown, 2005.


TDC 1 crown 2005.jpg

Tristan da Cunha, 1 crown, 2005.


From 2005 there are also notable changes in Tristan da Cunha's output. A new portrait of the Queen is used on the obverse, and sometimes the denomination is shown on the obverse, sometimes on the reverse. Also the abbreviation 'TDC' is used for the first time, presumably to save space. These variations look simply sloppy to my eye, but perhaps they were also made to appeal to a certain section of the collector market. I presume also that a different mint was now being used.

From this point on, Tristan da Cunha's output of collector coins increases hugely and becomes too varied to describe succinctly, compared to the older more traditional issues.
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Saint Helena-Ascension 5 pounds 2008.jpg

St. Helena-Ascension, 5 pounds, 2008.


Saint Helena-Ascension 25 pence 2012.jpg

St. Helena-Ascension, 25 pence, 2012.


Curiously, Saint Helena-Ascension issued a 5 pounds coin in 2008, and a 25 pence coin in 2012 and 2013.

There have been no more joint issues from the two islands since then, so far as I know.
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St. Helena-Ascension, 2 pounds, 1993.


Notice that the joint issues of Saint Helena-Ascension since 2008 (see previous post) use the word 'QUEEN' in the obverse legend.

The word did not appear on previous issues. However, it always appears on the circulation coins of Saint Helena-Ascension.





Saint-Helena Ascension, 2 pence coin, 1984.
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