Canada 25 cents - George VI 1943

Canada · 1943 · 25 cents

Circulating coinCommon

€4.93estimate

13,559,575coins minted

€6.92silver value · 4.66 g fine at today’s price

N371 KM35 SCHöN35

RZReference number RZRZ-QTD9A

Circulating coin

Series of 25 cents with the caribou of George VI (1937-1947)

The coin's story

This 25 cents coin in 800 thousandths silver belongs to the series struck from 1937 to 1947 in the name of King George VI. The reverse shows the head of a caribou, a design created for the new coinage of 1937, on the accession of George VI, and still in use today, the model was sculpted by Emanuel Hahn, whose initial H appears below the neck. The obverse bears the King's portrait engraved by Thomas Humphrey Paget, who signs HP. The 1943 date, struck in the middle of the Second World War, has 13,559,575 pieces at the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa.

ObverseThe Portrait of the King

GEORGIVS VI D:G:REX ET IND:IMP:HP

Design: Effigy of King George VI.
Legend: GEORGIVS VI D:G:REX ET IND:IMP: (George VI, by the grace of God, King and Emperor of India).
Signature: HP, initials of Thomas Humphrey Paget.

TPEngraved by Thomas Humphrey Paget