Newfoundland fifty cents
Type set of the Newfoundland 50-cent coin
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Victoria 50 Cents (1882)
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Edward VII 50 Cents (1908)
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George V 50 Cents (1917)
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 unlike 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]
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 William de Saulles | 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 Edgar Bertram 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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