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Medal - The Big Penny Sudbury, Ontario
| Issuer | Lombardo Mint |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped bust of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing a tiara and with hair styled in loose curls, occupying the central field. The encircling legend reads ELIZABETH II D G REGINA along the periphery, with the engraver's name LOMBARDO inscribed below the truncation. The rim is dentilated throughout. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sudbury's "Big Nickel" — the nine-metre sculpture erected in 1964 to promote the region's dominant industry — spawned a wave of souvenir metalwork, of which this Lombardo Mint piece is a characteristic example. The choice of copper rather than nickel for a medal commemorating a nickel-mining town is either an irony or a budget decision, depending on your view of the souvenir trade.