Newfoundland fifty cent piece was the last denomination to be added to the Victorian coinage. Its first year of issue was 1870. The laureate portrait is stylistically unlike anything used for the rest of British North America. The denomination became very popular and assumed importance after the failure of the Commercial and Union Banks of Newfoundland during the financial crisis of 1894.
Designer and Engraver
Leonard Charles Wyon
Composition
.925 silver, .075 copper
Weight
11.78 grams
Diameter
29.85 mm
Edge
Reeded
Designer and Engraver
Leonard Charles Wyon
Composition
.925 silver, .075 copper
Weight
11.78 grams
Diameter
29.85 mm
Edge
Reeded