🇨🇦🇨🇦 CANADA 1902 5 Cents - Edward VII COIN 🇨🇦🇨🇦

5 Cents - Edward VII

Features

Issuer Canada 
King Edward VII (1901-1910)  
Type Standard circulation coin 
Year 1902 
Value 5 Cents
0.05 CAD = USD 0.037
Currency Canadian dollar (1858-date)
Composition Silver (.925) (.925 silver .075 copper)
Weight 1.162 g
Diameter 15.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Number N# 419  
References KM# 9,  Schön# 9 

Obverse

Bust of King Edward VII, wearing a crown, facing right. 

Script: Latin 

Lettering: EDWARDVS VII D.G.REX IMPERATOR

Unabridged legend: EDWARDVS VII DEI GRATIA REX IMPERATOR 

Translation: Edward VII, King, and Emperor by the grace of God 

Engraver: George William de Saulles Read more on Wikipedia

Reverse

The face value, accompanied with the inscription "CANADA", is surrounded with two maple boughs and the crown of Queen Victoria

Script: Latin 

Lettering: 
5
CENTS
CANADA
1902

Engraver: Leonard C. Wyon 

Edge

Reeded

Mints

Royal Mint (Tower Hill), London, United Kingdom (1810-1975) 
H Heaton and Sons / The Mint Birmingham Limited, United Kingdom (1850-2003) 

Comments

Varieties:

Narrow and large H

Images: Michel Guérin


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