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Issue Price (Proof) Mintage (Brilliant Uncirculated) Issue Price (Brilliant Uncirculated) 1994 25th Anniversary of the last RCMP dog sled Ian D. Sparkes 178,485 $24.50 65,295 $17.95 1998 125th Anniversary of RCMP Adeline Halvorson 130,795 $29.95 81,376 $19.95
The Fathers of Confederation at the constitutional conference in Quebec, 1864. The origins of Canada's sovereignty lie in the constitutional English and British crowns and the absolute French crown establishing, in the 17th and 18th centuries, governmental institutions in areas that today comprise Canada.
The 50¢ coin is also commonly handed out as regular change at some Canada Post locations. An attempt at widening the circulation of the 50-cent piece was made in 2002 with the release of a specially designed coin marking the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, which was circulated through the Laura Secord Chocolates store chain in Canada. [26]
The quarter, short for quarter dollar, is a Canadian coin worth 25 cents or one-fourth of a Canadian dollar.It is a small, circular coin of silver colour. According to the Royal Canadian Mint, the official name for the coin is the 25-cent piece, but in practice, it is usually called a "quarter", much like its American counterpart.
The value of the dollar continued to be set by reference to the British sovereign and the American eagle, at the rate of 4.8666 Canadian dollars equal to £1, and ten Canadian dollars equal to the ten-dollar American eagle, the same rates as set in the 1853 Province of Canada legislation.
Between 1908 and 1919, sovereigns (legal tender in Canada for $ 4.86 + 2 ⁄ 3) were struck in Ottawa with a "C" mintmark. Canada produced its first gold dollar coins in 1912 in the form of $5 and $10.
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Coins were one of the first objects to bear the image of the reigning sovereign in what is today Canada. [8] After 1640, French colonists employed the Louis d'or ("gold Louis", which first bore the effigy of King Louis XIII and then all subsequent French monarchs) until the transfer of New France to the British in 1763.