A limited edition framed display, exhibiting a pair of ficitonal commemorative coins struck for the "First Share Issuance of the Queen Faketoria Trading Company". Also useful for shopping trolleys.
To celebrate the launch of Queen Faketoria in 2019, the Queen Faketoria Imperial Mint have cast 100 gold-looking coins, of which 40 coin pairs are being made available to you ("You!") the public. It is with great pleasure that we at the Doctor Geof Online Emporium can offer you, for just the price of a number of cups of coffee, the opportunity to own one of these coin pairs forever. Presented in an attractive display case and complete with certificate of authenticity, this piece elegantly displays two of these gold-looking coins for you to proudly display in your house tot the bafflement of pretty much anyone.
Queen Faketoria is an ongoing interactive steampunk art project, by Doctor Geof, that satirises the perils of reckless privatisation by offering to privatise a beloved un-privatise-able publicly-held institution: the Queen. Launched at the Asylum Steampunk Festival 2019, with the assistance of Brendan McCoy in the role of Queen Faketoria, this project blends corporate and royal behaviour with the stated aim of "Doing royal stuff so as to get some of that hot monarching business." Such as issuing commemorative coins.
A signed and numbered (of 40) black box frame displaying two limited edition Queen Faketoria coins with a museum-like caption, also accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, by Doctor Geof
Approx 193x193x34mm
August 2019