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25 Cents - Elizabeth II Tecumseh
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Value | 25 Cents |
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| Obverse description | The fourth definitive effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, as designed by Susanna Blunt, depicts a mature bare-headed portrait of the Queen facing right, wearing a necklace and drop earrings. The legend ELIZABETH II encircles the upper portion of the field, with D·G·REGINA flanking the lower portrait, and CANADA and the date 2012 completing the surrounding inscription. The portrait presents the Queen at approximately 77 years of age in a composed, dignified style characteristic of circulation coinage of this period. |
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| Mintage | 2012 - (fr) fini hors-circulation - 6,250,000 |
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Tecumseh's appearance on a circulating quarter in 2012 came as part of a broader War of 1812 bicentennial program — a conflict in which Canada's survival as a British colony depended heavily on Indigenous alliances. Without Tecumseh's military cooperation at Detroit and along the frontier, the American advance into Upper Canada in 1812 would have been considerably harder to stop. The Canadian government has long acknowledged this debt, though the coin program itself drew criticism from some Indigenous groups who questioned whether a 25-cent piece constituted meaningful recognition.