25 Cent Canada Nickel Elizabeth II (1926-2022)

2004-2005,
KM-510, Schön-533 Country Canada Years 2004-2005 Value 25 Cents Metal Nickel plated Steel Weight 4.4 g Diameter 23.88 mm
Commemorative issue Remembrance Day Obverse The portrait in right profile of Elizabeth II, when she was 77 years old, is surrounded with the inscription “ELIZABETH II D • G • REGINA” (Elizabeth II, Queen by the grace of God) Lettering: ELIZABETH II D·G·REGINA P Engraver: Susanna Blunt Susanna Blunt is a Canadian portrait artist who designed the most recent portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the current Canadian coinage, which began in 2003. She was born in Harbin, China, the daughter of an English banker. Blunt started her studies at the Banff School of Fine Arts as a young teenager. Reverse In the middle of a maple leaf, a poppy, the symbol of remembrance of the sacrifice in World War I and other wars, is coloured in red – this was the first coloured general circulation coin in the world – and surrounded with the legend “REMEMBER SOUVENIR”, the facial value and the inscription “CANADA” Also known as the conspiracy coin, due to the red centre, the US Secret Service believed there to be a microchip inside the coin, enabling them to be satellite tracked. Lettering: CANADA 2004 25 Cents REMEMBER SOUVENIR Engraver: Cosme Saffioti