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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 1st portrait
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 1953-1963 |
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| Diameter | 36.00 mm |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, modeled after Mary Gillick's portrait of the young Queen at approximately 27 years of age, wearing a laurel wreath in her hair. The truncation of the bust is visible at the lower field. The circular legend reads ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA, arranged around the periphery. Two major obverse varieties exist for this series: an early 'no shoulder fold' type with a rounded rim and a later 'shoulder fold' type with a flat rim, both struck from dies prepared by Thomas Shingles after Gillick's original model. |
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| Reverse description | The classic Canadian Voyageur design by Emanuel Otto Hahn, depicting a French-Canadian voyageur and a First Nations companion paddling a birch-bark canoe to the right across open water. The voyageur is seated at the stern and the Indigenous paddler at the bow; bundles of goods are stowed in the canoe, one bearing the initials 'HB' for the Hudson's Bay Company. A common loon flies above the water in the upper field, with the sun setting in the background suggested by horizontal lines. The legend CANADA arcs above, the denomination DOLLAR arcs below, and the date appears between the paddlers within the field; several die varieties are distinguished by the number of water lines visible beneath the canoe. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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