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2 Dollars - Victoria Reeded Edge Pattern
| Issuer | Newfoundland (Canadian provinces) |
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| Year | 1865 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | TWO HUNDRED CENTS 2 DOLLARS 1865 ONE HUNDRED PENCE |
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Newfoundland's decision to issue its own gold coinage in the 1860s was a deliberate assertion of fiscal independence from both Canada and Britain, timed precisely as Confederation debates were fracturing colonial politics. The 1865 pattern issues were struck at the Royal Mint in London as trial pieces to evaluate design and edge treatment before any circulating coinage was authorized — the reeded edge variant competing directly against a plain edge alternative, KM#Pn2.
Newfoundland ultimately did produce circulating $2 gold pieces beginning in 1865, but these patterns predate that authorization. Surviving examples are almost entirely in institutional or major private collections.