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1 Cent - George VI
| Issuer | Newfoundland |
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| Year | 1938-1947 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1938 - Struck in London - 500,000 1938 - Struck in London; Proof - 1940 - Struck in Ottawa - 300,000 1940 - Struck in Ottawa; Proof - 1940 - Struck in Ottawa; Re-engraved date - 1941 C - Struck in Ottawa - 827,662 1941 C - Struck in Ottawa; Re-engraved - 1942 - Struck in Ottawa - 1,996,889 1943 C - Struck in Ottawa - 1,239,732 1944 C - Struck in Ottawa - 1,328,776 1947 C - Struck in Ottawa - 313,772 1947 C - Struck in Ottawa; Proof - |
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Newfoundland maintained its own coinage well into the 20th century as a self-governing Dominion, but by 1938 that status was already a fiction — the Dominion had surrendered responsible government in 1934 under the weight of bankruptcy, replaced by an appointed Commission of Government answerable to London. These cents were struck at the Royal Mint's Birmingham branch (the Mint's contractor, the King's Norton works) for a polity that no longer governed itself. When Newfoundland voted in 1948 to join Canada, this series became obsolete overnight, making the final 1947-dated pieces the last distinctly Newfoundland coins ever struck.