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Browse a list of all the effigies (depictions of monarchs or other authority figures on coins) that we know about.

Image	Person	Effigy	Year	Coins Issued
(no image yet)	King George III of the United Kingdom	First laureate bust by Conrad Küchler	1797
	King George III of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Lewis Pingo (Sixth Head)	1801	6
	King George III of the United Kingdom	Seventh Head (Military Portrait)	1804	16
	King George III of the United Kingdom	Second laureate bust by Conrad Küchler	1804	2
	King George III of the United Kingdom	Laureate head by Conrad Küchler	1806	7
	King George III of the United Kingdom	Laureate bust by Benedetto Pistrucci (Bull Head)	1816	2
	King George III of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Benedetto Pistrucci (Laureate Head)	1817	12
	King George III of the United Kingdom	Small Head	1817	35
	King George IV of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Benedetto Pistrucci (Laureate head)	1821	61
	King George IV of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Jean Baptiste Merlen	1823	18
	King George IV of the United Kingdom	Portrait by William Wyon (Bare Head)	1824	12
	King George IV of the United Kingdom	Portrait by William Wyon (Laureate Head)	1825	6
	King William IV of the United Kingdom	Portrait by William Wyon	1830	75
	King Otto of Greece	Portrait by Carl Friedrich Voigt	1833
	Queen Victoria	Portrait by William Wyon (Young Head)	1838	565
	Queen Victoria	Portrait by William Wyon (Gothic)	1847	39
	Queen Victoria	Portrait by James Wyon (Fillet head)	1853	6
	Queen Victoria	Portrait by Leonard Charles Wyon (Young head with banksia)	1857	23
	Queen Victoria	Portrait by Leonard Charles Wyon (Bun Head)	1860	70
	James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak	Portrait by Joseph Moore	1863	3
	Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak	Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak	1870	41
	Queen Victoria	Portrait by Leonard Charles Wyon (Young crowned head)	1876	14
	Queen Victoria	Portrait by Joseph Edgar Boehm (Jubilee head)	1887	81
	King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria	Portrait by Аnton Scharff	1891	9
	Paul Kruger	Portrait by Otto Schultz	1892
	Queen Victoria	Portrait by Sir Thomas Brock (Veiled Head)	1893	124
	Prince George of Greece and Denmark	Portrait by Alfred Borrel	1901	4
	King Edward VII of the United Kingdom	Portrait by George William de Saulles (Crowned Bust)	1902	13
	King Edward VII of the United Kingdom	Portrait by George William de Saulles (Bare Head)	1902	120
(no image yet)	King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria	Portrait by Stefan Schwartz	1910	3
	King George V of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Bertram Mackennal (Crowned Bust)	1911	228
	King George V of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Bertram Mackennal (Bare Head)	1911	327
	King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria	Portrait by Rudolf Marschall	1912	11
	Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak	Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak	1920	17
	Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria	Portrait by Lajos Berán	1930	6
	King George V of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Percy Metcalfe (Crowned Bust)	1932	29
(no image yet)	Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria	Portrait by Percy Metcalfe	1934	3
	King George VI of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Thomas Humphrey Paget	1937	378
(no image yet)	King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Thomas Humphrey Paget	1937	6
	King George VI of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Percy Metcalfe (Crowned Head)	1937	82
	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by Cecil Thomas	1953	91
(no image yet)	Queen Elizabeth II	On Horseback, by Gilbert Ledward	1953	1
	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by Mary Gillick (First Portrait)	1953	525
	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by Arnold Machin (Second Portrait)	1964	509
(no image yet)	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by James Berry	1979	4
	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by Raphael David Maklouf (Third Portrait)	1985	424
(no image yet)	Queen Elizabeth II	Seated on Throne, by Bernard Sindall	1989	4
(no image yet)	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by Dora de Pédery-Hunt	1990
(no image yet)	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley (Fourth Portrait)	1998	580
(no image yet)	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by Vladimir Gottwald	2000	1
(no image yet)	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by Susanna Blunt	2003
	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by Jody Clark (Fifth Portrait)	2015	17
(no image yet)	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by James Butler	2016	2