10 Cents - Charles III

Canada's 2023 coinage presented an unusual institutional challenge: the death of Elizabeth II in September 2022 required the Royal Canadian Mint to redesign the obverse for every denomination simultaneously, the first monarch transition in seventy years. Effigy design fell to Canadian artist Steven Rosati, whose portrait of Charles III faces right — breaking the longstanding tradition of alternating portrait direction with each successive monarch, a convention the Commonwealth largely abandoned with this transition.