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300 Dollars - Elizabeth II Newfoundland time
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2005 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Serrated |
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Newfoundland observed its own time zone — offset by half an hour from Atlantic Standard — from 1935 until Confederation in 1949, when the province joined Canada but stubbornly retained the half-hour offset rather than adopting Atlantic Time. It still does. This coin belongs to the Royal Canadian Mint's "Canada's Time Zones" series, which commemorated that quietly defiant quirk of national geography.
The .5833 gold fineness traces directly to the historic 22-karat crown gold standard, a deliberate nod to British imperial coinage tradition that the Mint occasionally revives for collector issues of this type.