NEW ENGLISH COINAGE.
There is much discusssion in England over the new money that is to be issued next year in honor of the Queen's Jubilee, and there are multitudes of suggestions. All the coins that have done service for many years are doomed to be melted down and furnish materials for a new face. The florin is objected to, not only because it clashes with the half crown bat because the Queen is represented aa wearing a diadem that not only droops her head, but looks heavy enough to give any amount of headache. The Queen's c/Qwn when she was young and dj,essed\
up to the occasion, was always a similar one, and it suited her rather massive countenance much better than
the little close ornament adopted of late years, which looks like an insigni- j ficant top knot, that would slip off at : any moment without notice. And this it nearly did in 1874, when she was | ascending the throne on the opening of Parliament. Had not the Princess Beatrice, who was alongside, made a clutch, the crown might have rolled on the floor, an ill omen that no after hair-pinning, fasteniugs or tears conld wipe away. To a great many English the florin is a favourite piece, far preferred to any mere couple of shillings, and was only surpassed by the Victorian Gothic crown, a gem dear to collectors ; in its mint state this work of art was condemned as too fine a piece of workmanship for common use, and the public had to put up with something more calculated to bear fingering and pocketing. In the new coinage the Queen is no more to figure as a girl of eighteen, bnt is to be arrayed somewhat in the fashion of Queen Catherine Parr by Holbein — the dress black, in ample folds ; the throat seen through the bast is covered and the hair visible through the close -setting, matronly hood, with a knob on the Royal head-dregs that through the peeresses 1 opera glasses in the gallery of the House of Lords will tnrn into some microscopic edition of the Im-
perial crown.
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Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1780, 8 November 1886, Page 2
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356NEW ENGLISH COINAGE. Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1780, 8 November 1886, Page 2
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