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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 3rd portrait, Silver Proof Issue
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 1997-2003 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 19 97 CANADA 50 CENTS |
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This series was struck concurrently with the base-metal circulation issue but never intended for commerce — the Royal Canadian Mint had by the mid-1990s fully committed to a tiered production model separating collector proof coinage from working dies. The third portrait of Elizabeth II, sculpted by Dora de Pédery-Hunt, was the first effigy of a Canadian monarch produced by a Canadian artist, adopted in 1990 after the second Machin portrait had served since 1965.
De Pédery-Hunt was a Hungarian-born sculptor who fled to Canada in 1948.