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50 Cents - Elizabeth II Ontario Stratford Festival
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The fourth-generation effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, sculpted by Dora de Pédery-Hunt, depicted in right-facing portrait at approximately 64 years of age. The Queen wears the George IV State Diadem, a diamond necklace, and drop earrings, rendered in fine relief against a flat field. The obverse legend reads ELIZABETH II above and CANADA 50 CENTS below the effigy, all in Latin script. |
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| Obverse lettering | CANADA 50 CENTS ELIZABETH II |
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Issued as part of Canada's expanding commemorative fifty-cent program of the early 2000s, this piece marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stratford Festival, which was founded in 1952 largely through the efforts of journalist Tom Patterson, who persuaded the classical director Tyrone Guthrie to anchor a world-class Shakespeare festival in a small Ontario railway town. The first season was staged under a tent. Within a decade, Stratford had become one of the most attended classical theatre festivals in North America.