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20 Dollars In the name of George VI, Battle of Hong Kong
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 20 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Unadorned left-facing effigy of King George VI occupies the central field, rendered in high relief with fine portrait detail. The surrounding legend arcs along the upper periphery reading GEORGIVS VI D : G : REX ET IND : IMP:, separated by raised dots, with the denomination 20 DOLLARS inscribed along the lower rim. A beaded border frames the entire design. The engraver's initials HP appear in small characters below the truncation of the neck. The portrait style closely follows the traditional bareheaded effigy used on wartime-era Canadian coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Battle of Hong Kong began on 8 December 1941, hours after Pearl Harbor, when Japanese forces crossed the border from occupied China. The garrison — roughly 14,500 troops including two under-trained Canadian infantry battalions, the Royal Rifles of Canada and the Winnipeg Grenadiers — held out for eighteen days before Governor Mark Young surrendered on Christmas Day. Nearly 300 Canadians died in the fighting; close to 270 more would die in the prisoner-of-war camps that followed.
The Royal Rifles and Winnipeg Grenadiers had been dispatched to Hong Kong just weeks earlier, in late November, despite a pre-deployment report explicitly flagging their inadequate training.