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| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Additional information |
The 1997 fifty-cent dog breed series was part of the Royal Canadian Mint's sustained push through the late 1990s to expand collector-focused silver issues beyond conventional commemoratives. The Labrador Retriever entry in this set reflects the breed's particular prominence in Canada — the Lab takes its name from the Labrador Sea region, though the breed was actually developed and refined in Newfoundland before being exported to Britain in the early nineteenth century.