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Title: 25 cents
Date: 2008
Object Name: coin
Classification: North American
Culture(s):
Canadian
Mint: North America, Canada
Technique: struck
Medium: steel, unspecified alloy, 94%; copper (CU), 3.8%; nickel plating, three-ply nickel finish plated steel, 2.2%
Dimensions: Coin: 23.88 mm, 12 O'Clock, 4.39 g (15/16 in., 12 O'Clock, 0.15 oz.)
Subject/Image: Obverse: Bust Elizabeth II right, head bare
Subject/Image: Reverse: Red poppy on maple leaf. Commemorative of the 90th anniversary of the 1918 Armistice
Inscription: Obverse: ELIZABETH II CANADA D. G. REGINA Royal Canadian Mint Logo
Inscription: Reverse: 1918 ARMISTICE 2008 25 CENTS REMEMBER SOUVENIR CS
Description: Bust of Queen Elizabeth II right, head bare, wearing earring, necklace of beads and drapery. Royal Canadian Mint Logo below bust. Inscription around from lower left to lower right. Inscription left and right around. / Maple leaf on which 25 CENTS at tip of central point of leaf, in center of leaf a circle in which a red poppy with black center on gray-white ground. Banner below on which REMEMBER SOUVENIR. Artist's initials CS below right end of banner. Inscription above
Accession Number: NG.2011.3.11