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TDC: William & Catherine Half Crown

Started by chrisild, April 01, 2011, 03:38:22 PM

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chrisild

Want to buy a "William and Catherine" wedding coin? Can't wait any longer? Here is Tristan da Cunha to the rescue. :) With a tiny gold piece, featuring the couple on one side, and Queen Elizabeth on the other.

As it is so small (diameter only 11 mm) and light (half a gram), they did not really have the space for the "country" name. Instead, the obverse inscription is "HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II · TDC" ...

Christian

Figleaf

Quote from: chrisild on April 01, 2011, 03:38:22 PM
they did not really have the space for the "country" name. Instead, the obverse inscription is "HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II · TDC" ...

Wait till some journalist proclaims this thing to be British! :P

Anyway, the British piece is for sale in the London souvenir shops, so if you can't wait any longer ???, there's an alternative.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

andyg

Quote from: chrisild on April 01, 2011, 03:38:22 PM
As it is so small (diameter only 11 mm) and light (half a gram), they did not really have the space for the "country" name. Instead, the obverse inscription is "HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II · TDC" ...

The reason that it's TDC is solely to deceive the British public into thinking it's a UK issue.
They are marketed by the London Mint Office - sound familiar?  well they must be official with a name like that ::)

http://www.londonmintoffice.org/

On the front page is an advert for another TDC coin, except that the coin is so huge in the picture that TDC has been obscured - they just wanted to make sure that even if you knew where TDC was you'd still think this a UK issue. ;D
always willing to trade modern UK coins for modern coins from elsewhere....

andyg

It gets better...

Nowhere on the advert does it say that this piece is for TDC...
http://www.londonmintoffice.org/royal-wedding-coin-william-and-kate/

Should you want one for just £4.95 then enter your credit card details but beware, in the small print is the following -

QuoteIf your application for the William and Kate Wedding Crown is successful you will receive further coins in the Royal House of Windsor, a collection celebrating William and Kate and the Royal Family, to view on approval. Each coin will be available to you at the privileged price of just £29.95 (plus £2.95 P&P) and despatched at approximately monthly intervals, always without obligation. You may cancel at any time.

You will be charged for each coin upon despatch. ::)

My favourite quote : "Fewer than 1 in every 1,200 British citizens can ever own one"
I should think even less will actually want one ;D

(this is the same lot that offered to buy (although never actually did so) the undated 20p for £50)
always willing to trade modern UK coins for modern coins from elsewhere....

Figleaf

I saw ads in the London underground for a "truth in advertising" campaign. Wouldn't this be a good candidate? The lies are not blatant, but they do add up.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

translateltd

As a motoring enthusiast I can only think of "top dead centre" when I read TDC.  Took me a moment to think of Tristan.

And "fewer than 1" in 1200 can logically only be zero, which is nonsense.  Another example of hypercorrectness, where the writer has been scared away from writing "less than 1", which would make more sense here.  (Fewer implies counting, i.e. whole numbers; less gives you the option of decimals, which would be essential here ...)