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Image	Person	Effigy	Year
(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
	King George III of the United Kingdom	Seventh Head (Military Portrait)	1804
	King George III of the United Kingdom	Second laureate bust by Conrad Küchler	1804
	King George III of the United Kingdom	Laureate head by Conrad Küchler	1806
	King George III of the United Kingdom	Laureate bust by Benedetto Pistrucci (Bull Head)	1816
	King George III of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Benedetto Pistrucci (Laureate Head)	1817
	King George III of the United Kingdom	Small Head	1817
	King George IV of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Benedetto Pistrucci (Laureate head)	1821
	King George IV of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Jean Baptiste Merlen	1823
	King George IV of the United Kingdom	Portrait by William Wyon (Bare Head)	1824
	King George IV of the United Kingdom	Portrait by William Wyon (Laureate Head)	1825
	King William IV of the United Kingdom	Portrait by William Wyon	1830
	King Otto of Greece	Portrait by Carl Friedrich Voigt	1833
	Queen Victoria	Portrait by William Wyon (Young Head)	1838
	Queen Victoria	Portrait by William Wyon (Gothic)	1847
	Queen Victoria	Portrait by James Wyon (Fillet head)	1853
	Queen Victoria	Portrait by Leonard Charles Wyon (Young head with banksia)	1857
	Queen Victoria	Portrait by Leonard Charles Wyon (Bun Head)	1860
	James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak	Portrait by Joseph Moore	1863
	Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak	Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak	1870
	Queen Victoria	Portrait by Leonard Charles Wyon (Young crowned head)	1876
	Queen Victoria	Portrait by Joseph Edgar Boehm (Jubilee head)	1887
	King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria	Portrait by Аnton Scharff	1891
	Queen Victoria	Portrait by Sir Thomas Brock (Veiled Head)	1893
	Prince George of Greece and Denmark	Portrait by Alfred Borrel	1901
	King Edward VII of the United Kingdom	Portrait by George William de Saulles (Crowned Bust)	1902
	King Edward VII of the United Kingdom	Portrait by George William de Saulles (Bare Head)	1902
(no image yet)	King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria	Portrait by Stefan Schwartz	1910
	King George V of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Bertram Mackennal (Crowned Bust)	1911
	King George V of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Bertram Mackennal (Bare Head)	1911
	King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria	Portrait by Rudolf Marschall	1912
	Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak	Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak	1920
(no image yet)	Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria	Portrait by Lajos Berán	1930
	King George V of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Percy Metcalfe (Crowned Bust)	1932
(no image yet)	Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria	Portrait by Percy Metcalfe	1934
	King George VI of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Percy Metcalfe (Crowned Head)	1937
(no image yet)	King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Thomas Humphrey Paget	1937
	King George VI of the United Kingdom	Portrait by Thomas Humphrey Paget	1937
	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by Cecil Thomas	1953
	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by Mary Gillick (First Portrait)	1953
(no image yet)	Queen Elizabeth II	On Horseback, by Gilbert Ledward	1953
	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by Arnold Machin (Second Portrait)	1964
(no image yet)	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by James Berry	1979
	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by Raphael David Maklouf (Third Portrait)	1985
(no image yet)	Queen Elizabeth II	Seated on Throne, by Bernard Sindall	1989
(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
(no image yet)	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by Vladimir Gottwald	2000
(no image yet)	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by Susanna Blunt	2003
(no image yet)	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by Jody Clark (Fifth Portrait)	2015
(no image yet)	Queen Elizabeth II	Portrait by James Butler	2016