Image:1871 Canadian 50 cents both.png

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Description

A Canadian fifty-cent piece of 1871. "Weight .375, fineness 925. Value nearly 2s." Both sides shown
Source

Engraving from the article "Recent Coinage of the World" in the Companion to the British Almanac of 1874.
Date

1874
Author

Name of coin designer or engraver not known
Permission
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Other versions Obverse only, Reverse only

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