Catalog
1 Cent - Victoria
| Issuer | Nova Scotia |
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| Year | 1861-1864 |
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| Weight | 5.67 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Queen Victoria facing left, her hair elaborately styled and gathered at the nape with a ribbon, adorned with a laurel wreath. The truncation features a small floral spray. The surrounding legend reads VICTORIA D:G: BRITT:REG:F:D:, separated by dots, with a fine toothed border encircling the entire field. The portrait was engraved by Leonard Charles Wyon in a refined neoclassical style characteristic of mid-Victorian British colonial coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Nova Scotia issued its own bronze coinage under imperial authority before Confederation in 1867, after which the province surrendered its monetary autonomy to the new Dominion. These cents were struck at the Royal Mint in London, with the 1861 issue produced by Heaton's Birmingham Mint under contract — a distinction that occasionally surfaces in die characteristic differences between the two sources. The series was rendered obsolete almost immediately upon Confederation, giving circulated survivors relatively short active lives.