Coin, commemorative
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- OBJECT TYPE
- NICKEL
- DATE
- 1922
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1992.1553.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Royal Mint
- MODEL
- CANADIAN 5 CENT
- LOCATION
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- COIN: NICKEL; BOX: CARDSTOCK WITH PAPER COVER, VELVET LINING
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- 2.0 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Industrial Technology
- Category
- Memorabilia
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Mint CA
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Ottawa
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- 1920'S
- Canada
-
AN EXAMPLE OF A 1922 CANADIAN NICKEL COIN. - Function
-
TO COMMEMORATE THE FIRST COINS OF PURE NICKEL STRUCK BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT AT THE ROYAL MINT, OTTAWA - Technical
-
THIS COIN IS MADE OF PURE NICKEL WHEREAS MORE RECENT 'NICKEL' COINS HAVE LITTLE IF ANY NICKEL METAL IN THEIR COMPOSITION. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- COIN: 'CANADA/ FIVE 5 CENTS/ 1922/ GEORGIVS V DEI GRA REX ET IND: IMP.'/ ON INSIDE LID: 'In honor of the Twenty-Fourth/ Annual Meeting of The Cana/ dian Institute of Mining and/ Metallurgy, the Mond Nickel/ Company, Limited, presents this/ souvenir commemorating the first/ coins of pure Nickel struck by the/ Royal Mint, Ottawa on January/ third nineteen hundred and/ twenty-two.'
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- BOX: SIMULATED LEATHER - BLUE WITH GOLD TRIM; BLUE VELVET
- Decoration
- N/A
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Royal Mint, Coin, commemorative, 1922, Artifact no. 1992.1553, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1992.1553.001/
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