What will happen with currency and stamps?
Ever since Charles II's reign each new monarch faces in the opposite direction on coins to the previous one.has not said when it will start issuing coins bearing the King’s head.
As coins and notes bearing the Queen’s image are phased out, banks and post offices will issue the newly designed coins and notes and collect the older versions.New coins bearing King Charles III’s image will eventually be commissioned and printed by the Royal Mint after final designs are approved by the Chancellor and the King.
The Queen’s likeness currently features on the currency of 35 countries across the globe, including Canada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Fiji, and Cyprus and all this currency will have to change. Post boxes have carried a monogram of the reigning monarch since they were first introduced in 1853, carrying the monarch’s initials and title.More than 60 per cent of the UK's 115,000 postboxes carry the EIIR mark of Queen Elizabeth II.
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