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Royal Canadian Mint


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The Royal Canadian Mint is a Crown corporation, operating under the Royal Canadian Mint Act.
Royal Canadian Mint

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The Royal Canadian Mint is 100% owned by the Canadian government, which is its sole shareholder. Gold, silver, platinum and palladium coins are minted here. The best-known coini is Maple leaf with the motif of the Canadian maple leaf and Queen Eizabeth II on the other side. Other very popular coins with beautiful motifs are coins from the series Wildlife.

The mint was established in 1908. The Royal Canadian Mint headquarters is located in a historic building in central Ottawa. Commemorative coins, investment coins and medals are produced here.

In 1982, the Royal Canadian Mint began to produce coins with a 99.99% purity. Then in 1999, the Mint again excelled by the fact that it was the first mint to achieve purity of 99.999%.

The second branch is located in a modern building in Winnipeg, Canada. It was opened in 1976 and produces Canada's circulation coins.

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ADDRESS:
320 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0G8
CA, CANADA

SUBJECT LOCATION: CANADA, ISO CODE CA
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Royal Canadian Mint
The Royal Canadian Mint is a Crown corporation, operating under the Royal Canadian Mint Act.
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ALEXANDER, P. F
ALEXANDER, P. F [ ecit ](Dutch). Signature found on a medal executed in honour of the poet and historian John Baptist Houwaart, who at the time had attained unusual celebrity. Bolzenthal says that the portrait on this medal betrays a bold master-hand, and does great credit to the artist, who flourished during the latter part of the sixteenth century in Holland. Alexander was probably a Goldsmith of Antwerp, circa 152...
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ALEXAS
ALEXAS (Greek). Gem-engraver. The Brit. Museum possesses a fragment of a cameo on which figures a hippocamp, a type copied from Greek coins. Alexas had two sons, Aulus and Quintus, who both distinguished themselves in the glyptic art. The same signature appears also on a sard, now in Berlin, Bull butting; — Head of Sarapis (Raspe) ; — and with the addition of EMOEI on a burnt sard, showing a Lion in his den. Some of ...
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ALEXEJEFF, BASILE VLADIMIROWITCH
ALEXEJEFF, BASILE VLADIMIROWITCH (Russ.). Born in 1823, died in 1881. Son of the Medallist Vladimir Alexejeff. He received his education at the Technical Mining School attached to the Technological Institute at St. Petersburg, and entered the Mint in 1845 as Medal-engraver. In 1871 he was appointed Professor at the Russian Academy of Arts. Among the medals engraved by him the following are the best known : Portrait ...
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ALEXEJEFF, VLADIMIR EPHRAIMOWITCH
ALEXEJEFF, VLADIMIR EPHRAIMOWITCH (Russ.) 1784-1832. He entered the St. Petersburg Mint in 1801 to learn engraving, and in 1805 was promoted to the position of Medallist, on account of his success and artistic achievements. The following medals are also by this artist : Coronation of Nicholas I. ; — Peace of Adrianople, 1825 (R. by Klepikow) ; — Death of Czarina Alexandra Feodorowna ; — Dedication of the Isaac Cathed...
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