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50 Cents - Elizabeth II Festival of the Fathers
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Reference(s) | Ch#RC-727, KM#423 |
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| Obverse lettering | CANADA 50 CENTS ELIZABETH II |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The "Festival of the Fathers" half-dollar was part of Canada's millennial and early 2000s commemorative program, which the Royal Canadian Mint used aggressively to capture collector revenue after the 1996 restructuring that pushed it toward commercial self-sufficiency. This particular issue commemorates the 1864 Charlottetown Conference, where delegates from the British North American provinces met to begin drafting the terms of Confederation — a gathering now mythologized well beyond what the three-day social agenda actually accomplished.
Mintage was capped deliberately low to sustain secondary market premiums, a pricing strategy the RCM formalized during this period.