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200 Dollars - Elizabeth II Louis XIV 30 Deniers
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II at age 77, designed by Susan Taylor, depicted bare-headed and adorned with a necklace and earrings. The portrait presents a mature, refined likeness of the Queen in a dignified style. The circular legend surrounding the effigy reads ELIZABETH II 200 DOLLARS D•G•REGINA CANADA 2021, with the denomination and date incorporated into the obverse legend. The field is smooth, with the inscription distributed around the periphery in Latin. |
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| Mintage | 2021 - Proof |
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This piece belongs to a Royal Canadian Mint series revisiting significant coins from world monetary history, in this case the 30 deniers struck under Louis XIV as part of France's colonial currency system for New France. The 30 deniers — sometimes called the "mousquetaire" — circulated in the colony at a premium over its French domestic value, a deliberate policy to keep coin in circulation rather than see it shipped back across the Atlantic.
New France suffered chronic coin shortages throughout the late 17th century, famously prompting the use of playing card money as an emergency substitute in 1685.