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For the 2017 Canada 150 series, the Royal Canadian Mint held a contest titled My Canada, My Inspiration [12] to determine the reverse designs of the five circulating coins. The 50-cent coin would contain the Canadian Coat of Arms on the reverse, with the Canada 150 logo, designed by Ariana Cuvin, on the obverse, replacing Queen Elizabeth II. [13]
The Canadian silver dollar (French: Dollar argent du Canada) was first issued by the Royal Canadian Mint in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V.The coin's reverse design was sculpted by Emanuel Hahn and portrays a voyageur and a person of Indigenous descent paddling a birch-bark canoe.
The government announced on March 25, 1986, that the new dollar coin would be launched the following year as a replacement for the dollar bill, which would be phased out. [10] It was expected to cost $31.8 million to produce the first 300 million coins, but through seigniorage (the difference between the cost of production and the coin's value ...
In 1970, Master of the Mint Gordon Ward Hunter relaunched the Foreign Circulation division. In January 1970, the RCM won a contract from Singapore to produce six million rimmed blanks in a cupronickel alloy. [3]: 148 This was the Mint's first export contract since a contract for the Dominican Republic 32 years earlier. The second contract came ...
Actor Ryan Reynolds tweeted that he's trying to bring his mobile service company, Mint Mobile, to Canada. Experts say, that's a tough fight against incumbent wireless providers.
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In Canada, a dime is a coin worth ten cents. It has been the physically smallest Canadian coin since 1922; it is smaller even than the country's penny, despite its higher face value. According to the Royal Canadian Mint, the official national term of the coin is the 10-cent piece, but in practice, the term dime predominates in English-speaking ...