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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 26201949, member: 104064&quot;]Slightly more complicated story but accurate enough. India gained its independence in 1947 and Canada didn&#039;t want &quot;ET IND: IMP:&quot; on their 1948 coins, since the king was no longer emperor of India. But all their coin dies were made in England at the time and the Royal Mint was slow to revise the design. So Canada punched a maple leaf into their old 1947 dies and used them in 1948 until the &quot;dei gratia rex&quot; design arrived, so that people knew it wasn&#039;t their fault I guess. GB and Australia didn&#039;t seem to care, they still minted ET IND: IMP: coins dated 1948.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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