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50 Cents - Elizabeth II Quebec Carnival
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Reference(s) | Ch#RC-724, KM#420 |
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| Obverse lettering | CANADA 50 CENTS ELIZABETH II |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued as part of the Royal Canadian Mint's ongoing festivals and celebrations series, this piece marks the Quebec Winter Carnival — the world's largest winter carnival by attendance, running annually since its modern revival in 1955. The series was a deliberate commercial push by the RCM in the late 1990s and early 2000s to expand the collector market beyond traditional numismatic buyers, producing themed fifty-cent pieces at a pace that ultimately saturated secondary markets and suppressed premiums across the entire subcategory.