London Bridge has fallen. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II died on Sept. 8, 2022. She will be remembered to history, not only general history, but to numismatic history as well. Elizabeth, as the longest reigning British monarch, will leave a long and interesting legacy on coins and bank notes.
Elizabeth was not the first ruler to appear to age on coinage throughout that person’s reign. The Roman Emperor Nero appeared as a child, then as an adult, and finally as a rather rotund ruler during his short reign lasting from 54 to 68 A.D.
At the time of each Caligula’s and later Nero’s demise many of the coins on which either of their images appeared were either defaced or recalled. Today it can be expected the coinage and bank notes on which Elizabeth II appears will continue to
