The portrait of King Charles III shows his royal highness facing left and without a crown. At least since Charles II, whose coins featured him wearing a laurel wreath, the traditional symbol of victory, British coins haven’t typically featured a king with a crown. The coins featuring James II, who succeeded Charles II, had him wearing, besides a laurel wreath, a long flowing wig with a bow at the back, as was the fashion of the time, per The Royal Mint.
Queens, on the other hand, have included crowns in their portraits that appeared on coinage, per Cosmopolitan, although Queen Elizabeth II’s first coin, issued in 1953, showed her wearing a laurel wreath, rather than the various crowns her later portraits featured, per The Royal Mint Museum. King Charles III’s portrait also has him facing left rather than right, as with the portraits of his mother, another tradition that began with Charles II in which the monarchs face the opposite direction of their predecessor, according to The Washington Post. The Royal Mint, which has been making coins in England for more than 1,000 years, will release the first of the new coins, a 50P piece, in the coming weeks, according to the BBC.
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