50 cent — Canada (1995) — Atlantic Puffin
KM# 261
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Special facts
An Atlantic puffin on the silver 50 cents of 1995, Jean-Luc Grondin’s bird series.
About the period
The coins of Elizabeth II were struck from 1953 to 2022, almost seventy years in which four portraits of the queen succeeded one another: by Mary Gillick (1953–1964), Arnold Machin (1965–1989), Dora de Pédery-Hunt (1990–2003), the first portrait by a Canadian sculptor, and Susanna Blunt (from 2003). More about the period “Elizabeth II”, 1952 — 2022
Coins and banknotes of this year: 1995
Specifications
- Period
- Elizabeth II
- Currency
- 1 dollar = 100 cent
- Issue type
- Collector
- Mint mark
- Royal Canadian Mint, Canada
- Metal
- Silver
- Fineness
- 925
- Precious metal weight
- 8.602 g
- Diameter
- 27.1 mm
- Thickness
- 2.1 mm
- Weight
- 9.3 g
- Shape
- Round
- Orientation
- Medal (↑↑)
Variants
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Other items of the period
- 1993
- 300 dollars — Arctic fox KM# 243
- 1994
- 1 dollar — 25th Anniversary of the Last RCMP Northern Dog Team Patrol KM# 251
- 2 dollars — Gold Maple Leaf KM# 256 3rd portrait
- 2 dollars — Platinum Maple Leaf KM# 257 3rd portrait
- 20 dollars — Curtiss HS-2L Seaplane KM# 246
- 20 dollars — Canadian Vickers Vedette KM# 247
- 30 dollars — Sea Otter KM# 252
- 75 dollars — Sea Otter KM# 253
- 100 dollars — Home Front KM# 249
- 150 dollars — Sea Otter KM# 254
- 200 dollars — Anne of Green Gables KM# 250
- 300 dollars — Sea Otter KM# 255
- 1995
- 50 cent — Atlantic Puffin KM# 261
- 50 cent — Whooping Crane KM# 262
- 50 cent — Gray Jays KM# 263
- 50 cent — White-tailed Ptarmigans KM# 264
- 1 dollar — 325th Anniversary of the Hudson Bay Co KM# 259
- 20 dollars — Fleet 80 Cannuck KM# 271
- 20 dollars — DHC-1 Chipmunk KM# 272
- 30 dollars — Lynx KM# 266
- 75 dollars — Lynx KM# 267
- 100 dollars — Louisbourg KM# 260
- 150 dollars — Canada's endangered species: Lynx KM# 268
- 200 dollars — Sugar Bush KM# 265
- 300 dollars — Lynx KM# 269
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