Newfoundland fifty cents

Type set of the Newfoundland 50-cent coin

Victoria 50 Cents (1882)

Edward VII 50 Cents (1908)

George V 50 Cents (1917)

The Newfoundland fifty cent piece was the last denomination to be added to the Victorian coinage. Its first year of issue was 1870. The laureate portrait is stylistically unlike anything used for the rest of British North America. The denomination became very popular and assumed importance after the failure of the Commercial and Union Banks of Newfoundland during the financial crisis of 1894.^[1]