- Newfoundland fifty cents
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The Newfoundland fifty cent piece was the last denomination to be added to the Victorian coinage. Its first year of issue was 1870. The laureate portrait is stylistically unlinke anything used for the rest of British North America. The denomination became very popular and assumed importance after the failure of the Commercial and Union Banks of Newfoundland during the financial crisis of 1894.[1]
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Laureated portrait, 1870-1900
Specifications
Designer and Engraver Composition Weight Diameter Edge Leonard Charles Wyon .925 silver, .075 copper 11.78 grams 29.85 mm Reeded Mintages
Date and Mint Mark Mintage 1870 50,000 1872H 48,000 1873 32,000 1874 80,000 1876H 28,000 1880 24,000 1881 50,000 1882H 100,000 1885 40,000 1888 20,000 1894 40,000 1896 60,000 1898 79,607 1899 150,000 1900 150,000 Edward VII, 1904-1909
Specifications
Designer (Obverse) Designer (Reverse) Composition Weight Diameter Edge George W. DeSaulles W.H.J. Blakemore .925 silver, .075 copper 11.78 grams 29.85 mm Reeded Mintages
Date and Mint Mark Mintage 1904H 140,000 1907 100,000 1908 160,000 1909 200,000 George V, 1911-1919
Specifications
Designer Composition Weight (1911) Weight (1917–1919) Diameter (1911) Diameter (1917–1919) Edge Sir E.B. MacKennal .925 silver, .075 copper 11.78 grams 11.66 grams 29.85 mm 29.72 mm Reeded Mintages
Date and Mint Mark Mintage 1911 200,000 1917C 375,560 1918C 294,824 1919C 306,267 References
- ^ Charlton Standard Catalogue of Canadian Coins, p. 51, W.K. Cross, 60th Edition, 2006
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