1 Cent - Victoria Pattern Specimen

Features

Issuer	Canada
Queen	Victoria (1837-1901)
Type	Pattern
Year	1876
Value	1 Cent (0.01 CAD)
Currency	Canadian dollar (1858-date)
Composition	Bronze
Weight	4.56 g
Diameter	25.45 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 331376

Obverse

Head of the very young Queen Victoria wearing a laurel wreath, facing left.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
VICTORIA DEI GRATIA REGINA.
CANADA

Unabridged legend: VICTORIA DEI GRATIA REGINA

Translation: Victoria Queen by the grace of God

Engravers: Leonard Charles Wyon , George William de Saulles

Leonard Charles Wyon was a British engraver of the Victorian era most notable for his work on the gold and silver coinage struck for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887 and the bronze coinage of 1860 with the second head portrait, in use from 1860 to 1894.

George William de Saulles was a British medallist. He authored and designed the obverse of coins from the United Kingdom and its colonies under Queen Victoria and Edward VII of the United Kingdom

Reverse

Maple leaves rapped around a vine.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ONE
CENT
1876
H

Engraver: Leonard Charles Wyon

Leonard Charles Wyon was a British engraver of the Victorian era most notable for his work on the gold and silver coinage struck for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887 and the bronze coinage of 1860 with the second head portrait, in use from 1860 to 1894.

Edge

Plain

Mint

Comments

The bust suggests that Canada originally considered using the laureate bust as the obverse.

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Numista Rarity index: 88

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