Two Australian coins commemorating Queen Elizabeth II have been criticised for failing to resemble the late monarch. The $5 (£2.56) and 50c (26p) silver coins, created by Royal Australian Mint to commemorate the centenary of the queen’s birth, were released in an online ballot that closed on Wednesday. Collectors on social media debated whether the late queen’s portrait is regal or more like a character from a film or TV series, with Mrs Doubtfire, played by Robin Williams in the eponymous 1990s film, Mrs Brown played by Brendan O’Carroll in the Irish sitcom Mrs Brown’s Boys, and the cartoon character
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