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The quarter, short for quarter dollar, is a Canadian coin worth 25 cents or one-fourth of a Canadian dollar. In addition to being used as circulating currency, this denomination has also been used to make commemorative coins struck by the Royal Canadian Mint .
The quarter, short for quarter dollar, is a Canadian coin worth 25 cents or one-fourth of a Canadian dollar.It is a small, circular coin of silver colour. According to the Royal Canadian Mint, the official name for the coin is the 25-cent piece, but in practice, it is usually called a "quarter", much like its American counterpart.
The twenty-five cent coin has borne a caribou on its reverse since the current coin designs were introduced in 1937. [2] The twenty-five cent coin is the coin which is most frequently used for commemorative purposes. For the list of commemorative twenty-five cent coins issued by the Mint, see: Quarter (Canadian coin).
75% copper 25% nickel N/A Coat of Arms: Value 1976: United States and others: USD: 24.3 mm N/A 5.7 g 75% copper 25% nickel Reeded George Washington: Eagle: 2022: Zimbabwe: N/A 23.0 mm N/A 4.8 g Nickel-plated steel N/A RBZ in various positions with coin date Enclosed in circle with "25" surrounded by "TWENTY-FIVE CENTS BOND COIN" 2014
Among numismatists, the 1921 50-cent coin is considered the rarest Canadian circulation coin and is known as The King of Canadian coins. As of 2012, a 1921 50-cent piece in MS-65 condition is valued at $250,000 to $350,000. [citation needed] Despite a mintage of 206,398 coins, there was a very low demand for 50-cent coins in the 1920s. The ...
The quantity of the large bust has never been confirmed but most publications on Canadian coins estimate that there are approximately 10,000 of these coins. The 1999 Millennium series of 25-cent pieces included the bust of a Mountie on each of the January and July issues. [2] Unlike the twenty-five cent coin, the Silver Dollar had the same obverse.
The creation of a second series of bank notes, only two years after the first issue, was prompted by changes in Canadian government legislation requiring the Bank of Canada to produce bilingual bank notes. Another contributing factor was the death of King George V on 20 January 1936, and the subsequent abdication of Edward VIII.
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.