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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Siberian Man, post: 1058875, member: 22500&quot;]When Canadian provinces was united in Canadian Confederation (1864), Prince Edward Island didn&#039;t join and it&#039;s remained the separate English colony.</p><p>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 (&quot;Ralph Heaton &amp; Sons, Birmingham&quot;).</p><p>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.</p><p>It is very interesting: the word &quot;queen&quot; was make in English but not on Latin.</p><p>New coins used not so long as it planned: in 1873 Prince Edward Island joined with Canada and got a Canadian coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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