2 Dollars - Victoria Electrotype Pattern; Block Lettering

Newfoundland's 1865 gold coinage program required British approval before any pieces entered circulation, and the electrotype patterns produced that year were working tools of that approval process — struck or fabricated to demonstrate proposed designs to colonial and imperial authorities rather than for any commercial purpose. The block lettering variety of this two-dollar pattern represents an early typographic choice that was subsequently abandoned before the regular issue was authorized.

Only a handful of these electrotypes are documented. The KM#Pn1 designation places it at the very opening of Newfoundland's pattern series.