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50 Cents - Elizabeth II BC Squamish Festival
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts two competitors engaged in the traditional Squamish Nation log-climbing event, a feature of the Squamish Days Logger Sports Festival in British Columbia. In the central field, a dominant figure is shown scaling a tall vertical pole at a dynamic angle, using spiked boots and a rope, while a second, smaller climber ascends a pole in the left middle ground. A stylized mountain landscape and Indigenous graphic motifs are incised in the left field. The engraver's initials SH appear at lower left. The bilingual legend BRITISH COLUMBIA 2002 COLOMBIE-BRITANNIQUE arcs along the upper and right periphery. |
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This piece is one of several regional festival commemoratives issued by the Royal Canadian Mint in the early 2000s under a broader program celebrating Canadian cultural events. The Squamish Nation's festival, rooted in the traditions of the Coast Salish peoples of British Columbia, provided the thematic basis for the issue. Mintage for these festival halves was tightly controlled, typically in the low tens of thousands, keeping secondary market supplies genuinely constrained rather than artificially so.