The Mint in Ottawa struck coinage for Newfoundland and Labrador during the First World War and Second World War and again in those years immediately preceding Newfoundland and Labrador’s entry into Confederation in 1949. ![]() The $2 pieces were issued from 1865 to 1888.Ĭoins were struck at the Royal Mint in London, and on occasion at the Heaton Mint. The 50 cent coins were issued variously between 18. In 1917, and again in 1919, a 25-cent piece was issued. ![]() The 20-cent pieces were issued from 1865 to 1912. The coinage consisted of bronze cents, silver 5-, 10-, 20- and 50-cent pieces and gold $2 coins. With the adoption of the decimal system in 1863, the value of private tokens was reduced and a decimal coinage was instituted. These issues were anonymous and included a piece dated 1858 picturingĪ ship, and another dated 1860 that reads “SUCCESS TO THE FISHERIES.” Following several attempts by the local government to ban the importation of tokens in the 1850s, additional local issues were circulated. Tokens were imported from Prince Edward Island. In later years, large numbers of SHIPS COLONIES & COMMERCE The earliest private tokens in Newfoundland and Labrador date from the 1840s and include the issues of Peter McAusland and the Rutherford Brothers, who operated Were the SHIPS COLONIES & COMMERCE halfpennies and tokens inscribed “SUCCESS TO THE FISHERIES” or “SELF GOVERNMENT AND FREE TRADE.” Newfoundland and Labrador Large numbers of lightweight halfpenny tokens circulated from about 1830 till well after 1860. Prince Edward Islandĭuring this period in PEI, various tokens were also in use. Anything the size of a halfpenny would pass for one in Montreal between 18. Numbers of American cents and various foreign coins. Copper coins consisted of an insufficient and dwindling supply of battered, worn-out English and Irish halfpennies dating from the reign of George III, supplemented by locally issued and imported tokens and by small Silver coins comprised mostly Spanish coins struck in Mexico and South America, some old French silver circulating in Lower Canada, and a sprinkling of English silver elsewhere.Īmerican silver appeared after 1815. Gold coins consisted of British guineas and, later, sovereigns, some American eagles, French louis d’or, Spanish doubloons (and fractions thereof), and British Coinsįor the first 50 years after the Conquest (1760), the British did almost nothing to provide coin, other than sending an occasional shipment of badly worn copper withdrawnįrom circulation in Britain. The authorities at Quebec also issued various kinds of paper money ( see Playing-Card Money), eventually far too much of it, and at times had to permit the use of large, silver Hispano-American 8 real pieces, called Spanishĭollars, and their subdivisions. The French ship Le Chameau carried treasure intended to supply the colonial governments in Quebec and Louisbourg,īut it was lost in a hurricane off Cape Breton Island in 1725. These coinages were inadequate for Canada’s needs and French coins were shipped out annually. There was considerable resistance to their circulation and, in 1726, most of the coins, which had lain unissued in the treasury at Quebec City, In 17,Īn issue of copper coins of 9 deniers was struck for all French colonies and a large shipment was sent to Canada. In 1717, there was an attempt to produce a copper coinage for the French colonies, but few were struck because of the poor quality of the available copper. In 1672, the value of these coins was raised by one-third in a vain attempt to keep them in local circulation. Have been found in Canada the piece of 15 sols is especially rare. ![]() The first coins struck for use anywhere in Canada were the famous “GLORIAM REGNI” silver coins of 1670, struck in Paris for use in all French colonies in the Americas. The coast, particularly in Newfoundland, where various nationalities came to fish ( see Fisheries History). English coins were most common in their territories, and a mix of coins from Portugal and elsewhere dominated along ![]() In other areas under French control ( see New France). The earliest coins in use in what is now Canada were those carried by the first colonists and visitors to our shores.
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