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According to the Royal Canadian Mint, the official term for the coin is the one-cent piece, but in practice the terms penny and cent predominate. [citation needed] Penny was likely readily adopted because the previous coinage in Canada (up to 1858) was the British monetary system, where Canada used British pounds, shillings, and pence as coinage alongside U.S. decimal coins.
Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II: Royal Canadian Mint Staff 29,688 $33.95 64,410 $24.95 2002 The Queen Mother: Royal Canadian Mint Staff 9,994 $49.95 No BU exists N/A 2003 Centennial of the Cobalt-Silver Strike at Cobalt, ON John Mardon 88,536 $36.95 51,130 $28.95 2003 50th Anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (First Effigy of Queen)
At Rideau Hall, on December 19, 2003, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, along with Canada Post President and CEO André Ouellet, and Canadian pop music artist and photographer Bryan Adams, unveiled a 49 cent domestic rate Canada Post definitive stamp bearing the image of Queen Elizabeth II.
A Canadian nickel (issued 2003) with the phrase D. G. Regina on its obverse. The abbreviated phrase has been used on Canadian coins since 1965. From 1953 until 1964, under Queen Elizabeth II it read Dei gratia Regina and from 1965 onwards, it was abbreviated on all coins to the current phrase of D. G. Regina. [1]
Among numismatists, the 1921 50-cent coin is considered the rarest Canadian circulation coin and is known as The King of Canadian coins. As of 2012, a 1921 50-cent piece in MS-65 condition is valued at $250,000 to $350,000. [citation needed] Despite a mintage of 206,398 coins, there was a very low demand for 50-cent coins in the 1920s. The ...
As well, the Queen suggested that the Tudor crown on the arms be replaced with the crown of St Edward the Confessor. [19] Although a circulating coin, the fifty-cent coin is rarely used. For the list of commemorative fifty cent coins issued by the Mint, see: 50-cent piece (Canadian coin).
A Big Maple Leaf measures 2.8 centimetres (1.1 in) thick and 50 centimetres (20 in) in diameter and is 999.99/1000 pure. The obverse of the BML shows Queen Elizabeth II as she has appeared on Canadian coinage since 2003, [5] when Susanna Blunt's design became the third iteration of the queen's effigy to appear on coinage (the others were 1965 and 1990).
Illustration of the first Canadian fifty-cent coin, showing Queen Victoria, 1871 Bank of Upper Canada, one penny token showing St George and the Dragon, 1857. In 1867, the federal government planned to issue its own coinage, in denominations of one cent, five cents, ten cents, twenty-five cents, and fifty cents. [28]