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50 Cents - Elizabeth II Eskimo Dog
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse lettering | CANADA AN 50 CENTS 1997 |
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| Mint | Royal Canadian Mint, Ottawa |
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The Eskimo Dog — more precisely the Canadian Inuit Dog — was the fourth subject in the Royal Canadian Mint's twelve-coin sled dog breed series running from 1997 to 1998. The series was conceived partly to satisfy a booming collector market for commemorative fifty-cent pieces, a denomination that had effectively ceased to circulate by the mid-1990s, making the entire run purpose-struck from the outset.
Mintage for individual breeds in this series varied, and some issues were struck in quantities low enough to generate immediate secondary market premiums on release.