1944 CANADA King George VI of Britain Silver 50 Cent Coin Coat of Arms i53784

Item: i53784

Authentic Coin of:

Canada

George VI
–
King of the

United Kingdom, Ireland 
and British Dominions:
11 December 1936 – 6 February 1952
1944 50 Cents 29.72mm (11.66 grams) 0.800 Silver (0.2981 oz. ASW)
Reference: KM# 36 Obverse Designer: T. H. Paget Reverse Designer: George E. 
Kruger-Gray
GEORGIVS VI D:G:REX ET IND :IMP:, Head of King George VI left; HP below head.
King George VI coat of arms in Canada; 50◦ 
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George 
VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was
King of the United Kingdom
and the
Dominions
of the
British Commonwealth
from 11 December 1936 
until his death. He was the last
Emperor of India
and the first
Head of the Commonwealth
.

As the second son of
King George V
, he was not expected to inherit 
the throne and spent his early life in the shadow of his elder brother,
Edward
. He served in the
Royal Navy
and
Royal Air Force
during the
First World War
, and after it took on the usual 
round of public engagements. He married
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
in 1923 and they had 
two daughters,
Elizabeth
and
Margaret
.

George’s elder brother ascended the throne as Edward VIII upon the death of 
their father in 1936. However, later that year Edward revealed his desire to 
marry the divorced American socialite
Wallis Simpson
. British Prime Minister
Stanley Baldwin
advised Edward that for 
political and religious reasons he could not marry a divorced woman and remain 
king.
Edward abdicated
in order to marry, and George 
ascended the throne as the third monarch of the
House of Windsor
.

During George’s reign the break-up of the
British Empire
and its transition into the
Commonwealth of Nations
accelerated. The 
parliament of the
Irish Free State

removed
direct mention of the monarch from
the country’s constitution
on the day of his 
accession. Within three years, the Empire and Commonwealth, except the Irish 
Free State, was at
war
with
Nazi Germany
. In the next two years, war with
Italy
and
Japan
followed. Though
Britain and its allies
were ultimately 
victorious, the United States and the
Soviet Union
rose as pre-eminent
world powers
and the British Empire declined. 
After the
independence of India and Pakistan
in 1947, 
George remained as king of both countries, but the title Emperor of India 
was abandoned in June 1948. Ireland
formally declared itself a republic
and left 
the Commonwealth in 1949, and India became a republic within the Commonwealth 
the following year. George adopted the new title of Head of the Commonwealth. He 
was beset by health problems in the later years of his reign. His elder 
daughter, Elizabeth, succeeded him.

Canada 
is a country, consisting of
ten provinces and t
hree 
territories, in the northern part of the continent of North America. 
It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, 
covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles) in total, 
making it the world’s
second-largest country by total area
and the
fourth-largest country by land area
. Canada’s
common border with the United States
forms the 
world’s longest land border. Canada is sparsely populated overall, the majority 
of its land territory being dominated by
forest
and
tundra
as well as the mountain range of the
Rocky Mountains
; about four-fifths of the 
population live near to the southern border. The majority of Canada has a cold 
or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer.

The land now called Canada has been inhabited for millennia by various
Aboriginal peoples
. Beginning in the late 15th 
century,
British
and
French colonies
were established on the 
region’s Atlantic coast. As a consequence of
various conflicts
, the United Kingdom gained 
and lost North American territories until left, in the late 18th century, with 
what mostly comprises Canada today. Pursuant to the
British North America Act
, on July 1, 1867, 
three colonies
joined
to form the autonomous
federal Dominion
of Canada. This began an
accretion
of provinces and territories to the 
new self-governing
Dominion
. In 1931, Britain granted Canada near 
total independence with the
Statute of Westminster 1931
and full 
sovereignty was attained when the
Canada Act 1982
severed the vestiges of legal 
dependence on the
British parliament
.

Canada is a
federal

parliamentary democracy
and a
constitutional monarchy
, Queen
Elizabeth II
being the current head of state. 
The country is
officially bilingual
at the federal level. It 
is one of the world’s most ethnically diverse and
multicultural
nations, the product of 
large-scale immigration from many countries, with a population of approximately 
35 million as of 2015. Its advanced economy is
the eleventh largest in the world
, relying 
chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international 
trade networks. Canada’s
long and complex relationship
with the United 
States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture.

Canada is a
developed country
and one of the wealthiest in 
the world, with the
tenth highest
nominal per capita income 
globally, and the
eighth highest
ranking in the
Human Development Index
. It
ranks among the highest
in international 
measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, 
economic freedom, and education. Canada is a
Commonwealth Realm
member of the
Commonwealth of Nations
, a member of the
Francophonie
, and part of several major 
international and intergovernmental institutions or groupings including the

North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the
G8
, the
Group of Ten
, the
G20
, the
North American Free Trade Agreement
and the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
forum.