If the Queen dies...?

If the Queen kicks the bucket then what will happen to all our coins? I was at work today and the thought just popped into my mind. Would they melt the coins and put the new face on them....Gradually introduce new coins to the system, or leave them as they are...Or what? As long as they don't go putting John Howard on the back...Darn creepy is what that would be.

 

they would put Charlie's face on them.

 

So if the Queen died, would the Prince of Wales (Prince Charles) be the new king?

 

they would put all the Simpson characters on them, with Moe being the most valuable

 

Sure, of course he would. He's the heir to the throne.

 

give it a few years and charlie wont have any hair .....one side of the coin will have victoria on "other " david

 

I would say they would wait until Charlie was crowned King. As a kid growing up in the UK, prior to decimalisation in 1971 there ware many coins with the head of previous monarchs stamped on them, so the I would say the coins with Liz's head on them would continue to circulate as previously.

 

Does that mean that the monarch gets a say on how coins look?

If it did, then could the King do things like decide to go from coins to shillings again?

Imagine if it did, it would be silly!!!

 

to a point they could change it, but why would they do that? We have our own currency and ecconomy, there is no point in changing it back. Whats the panic?

I cant believe how uneducated a lot of you are, you really have no idea how our government is run... or even who really runs it.

 

seconded

 

why on earth ain't you guys a republic yet?

 

dont ask me.....

 

No panic at all - just a thought.

 

why arent we republic?

Because at the last refurendum the question was posed in the most ridiculous way imaginable

it was

"Do you want to keep the queen as head of state?"

'Yes.'

or

'No, and in place, we'll do this stupid thing, and have this annoying thing.'

not just a simple "no"

The republic option was doused in all sorts of bad things invcented by the government. If they just asked a straigtforward "yeas or no" type qustion, I'm sure the outcome would have been different.

 

Because of all the publicity the royal family gets from all the women's magazines. Maybe Rupert should buy all the women's mags but then he would be in the quandary of either having the higher sales of by plastering photos of the royal family all over the mags or lower sales by not doing so.

 

so.. in your opinion how patriotic is australia toward the monarch?

 

not very

 

You know, Queen Elizabeth is in awfully good shape, and she comes from a family of real long livers. My goodness, her mother outlived George VI by 50 friggin' years! At the rate she's going, she may even outlive Prince Charles. It'll be interesting to see what happens.

 

Sure, of course he would. He's the heir to the throne. xD

 

So.. basically your not a republic because either it would be too much hassle (or the prospect of becoming a republic was too difficult a question), or there might be a drop in sale of glossies.........

heh! Australia rocks!