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$1 Million Canadian Gold Maple Leaf: Canada: Dorotheum Auction House June 2010 $4,000,000 (20 million ZAR) 1898 Single 9 Pond South African Republic: King Farouk of Egypt: South Cape Coins (private transaction) [18] May 2010 $3,960,000 1885 Trade Dollar: PF-66 United States Eliasberg Heritage Auctions [19] January 2019 $3,877,500 1804 Bust ...
According to the Royal Canadian Mint, the official term for the coin is the one-cent piece, but in practice the terms penny and cent predominate. [citation needed] Penny was likely readily adopted because the previous coinage in Canada (up to 1858) was the British monetary system, where Canada used British pounds, shillings, and pence as coinage alongside U.S. decimal coins.
A Big Maple Leaf measures 2.8 centimetres (1.1 in) thick and 50 centimetres (20 in) in diameter and is 999.99/1000 pure. The obverse of the BML shows Queen Elizabeth II as she has appeared on Canadian coinage since 2003, [5] when Susanna Blunt's design became the third iteration of the queen's effigy to appear on coinage (the others were 1965 and 1990).
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]
Designed by Alex Colville, every coin produced that year featured a creature native to Canada: a rock dove on the 1¢ coin, a rabbit on the 5¢ coin, a mackerel on the 10¢ coin, a lynx on the 25¢ coin, a howling wolf on the 50¢ coin, and a Canada goose on the dollar. A commemorative gold $20 coin was also struck for collectors' sets, with a ...
The changes were reflected in the 1959 50-cent coin. [15] The new reverse was modelled and designed by Thomas Shingles, updating the Canadian coat-of-arms. In 1968, the 10-cent coin and higher denominations were debased, their silver alloy being replaced by nickel. The dime of 1969 has two varieties, a large 9 (rare) and small 9 (common).
DETROIT (Reuters) -U.S. automakers Ford Motor and General Motors will donate $1 million each, along with vehicles, to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's January inauguration, company ...
The smallest coins currently minted are 5 fils (Kuwait and Bahrain), 1/4 dinar (Jordan), 25 dinars (Iraq). The Omani rial is divided into 1,000 baisa. The Libyan dinar has been divided into 1,000 dirhams since 1971. The Japanese yen was formerly divided into 1,000 rin. An early proposed (but not accepted) design for the 1-rin coin used "1 mil ...