Prince Edward Island.

Prince Edward Island was found in 1534 by French navigator Jaques Cartier. First denomination of this island was "St. Jean Island".
In XVII century St. Jean Island become a part of French colony Acadia.
During the Seven Years War (1756-1763) English troops are occupied St. Jean Island (it was in 1758) and in 1768 the English founded the Charlottetown - the capital of St. Jean Island.
In 1769 St. Jean Island become a separate colony of Great Britain and then, in 1799, it was renamed in Prince Edward Island.

 

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When Canadian provinces was united in Canadian Confederation (1864), Prince Edward Island didn't join and it's remained the separate English colony.
In 1871 Royal Mint (London) got an order to make the big batch of 1-cent coins for Prince Edward Island (2000000 pieces). It was too big batch and the guide of Royal Mind concluded an agreement with the private Mint ("Ralph Heaton & Sons, Birmingham").
Designer of the new coin was Leonard Charles Vyon. He used a picture of an official seal of Prince Edward Island on reverse and a portrait of Victoria the Queen on obverse.
It is very interesting: the word "queen" was make in English but not on Latin.
New coins used not so long as it planned: in 1873 Prince Edward Island joined with Canada and got a Canadian coins.

 

Prince Edward Island.
One cent 1871, bronze, weight - 5,49 g., size - 25,38 mm. It's a rather rare coin now.

 

That is all.

 

Nice one Siberian Man, I have none of Prince Edward Island. I always liked the reverse of the bronzes like the one you posted. Cool coin. You certainly have a far spanning European and British Commonwealth collection, I salute you.... or take my hat off to you, if you aren't in the military that is

 

I searched this coin during the last 6 or 7 years, and I got it at last!

 

Interesting coin; have not seen that before. Do you, or does anybody, know how many of those 2 million coins were actually issued? All of them, or did they stop at some point due to PEI becoming part of Canada?

Christian

 

Nice pick up Eugene, I have always want to visit that part of Canada. We did plan on year to go but our plans changed . On one of our cruises we met a very nice man from PEI. I love Canada and the people up there...have had spent many a summer in Ont.a a child.

 

Bit off topic, well far off topic, don't let my post deter you all from the conversation at hand.
Eire 73: where did you shoot that photo of the Tucan? or is it a photo from the internet? Just curious, beautiful creatures.

 

I looked this up in Krause. total mintage listed is 2,000,000. until you get into the MS grades this is an under $20 coin. I thought it looked familiar so I checked my sales inventory and It turns out I have one in similar condition for $5. Do I have this underpriced or are they not as rare as we might think?

Richard

 

I got it for 16$.

 

Here is my only Prince Edward Island coin:



Canada Prince Edward Island 1 Cent 1871

Prince Edward Island was the setting for the "Anne of Green Gables" books
written by Lucy Maud Montgomery in the early 1900's

 

Ah, thanks for that info. Does not say much about today's "population" of course, but it seems they actually minted them all.

Christian

 

I'd say you have it fairly priced assuming it's VG
PEI had beautiful coins no doubt

 

Nice example willie.

 

there is actually a token from prince edward island that is extremely rare. on the obverse is the legend "prince edward island" and the date 1857 and on the reverse it says "self government and free trade" i have this in my token collection and i also have the cent.

 

Any photos of said token?

 

sorry rex can't take photos yet with my new camera, they all come out very blurred.

 

this isn't my token but i found this photo by googling the token.

 

Without commenting and correcting the numerous inaccuracies in the history section of this post, the PEI coin is beautiful and readily available, at least around my location. The reverse of coin displays trees unlike any I saw during my youth. Does anyone on this thread have information on the type of trees depicted?
The Atlantic Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI) coins make a short series, that is a significant challenge to complete as there are two rarities. I am currently one coin short, the 1861 New Brunswick 1/2 cent.
Nice pictures