1865 Newfoundland 20 Cents
Victoria · 2 varieties · study revised June 24th 2011
This year was the beginning of an entirely new decimal series for Newfoundland and was one to last for 83 years. It continued up until the Island's decision to become the tenth Province of Confederation in 1949 and ended with its last coin productions in 1947.
Read Barry's full introduction
As can be expected with anything new, there were times when the mint had to modify or improve upon the dies in order to produce high quality coinage. However, surprisingly in this first year, there seems to have been very few modifications made to these dies! Of course, this may change as more examples are examined but for the moment, we are left with just two but noteable varieties. These particular variations are primarily defined by the obvious differences found to both the "1" and "6" in the date.
