1 Cent - Victoria Pattern Specimen

Features

Issuer Canada
Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
Type Pattern
Year 1876
Value 1 Cent (0.01 CAD)
Currency 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

Reverse

Maple leaves rapped around a vine.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ONE
CENT
1876
H

Engraver: Leonard Charles Wyon

Edge

Plain

Mint

H Heaton and Sons / The Mint Birmingham (Heaton and Sons / The Mint Birmingham Limited), United Kingdom (1850-2003)

Comments

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

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1876 H

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Country: Canada
Languages: English
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