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  • 25 Cents 2006, KM# 635, Canada, Elizabeth II, Breast Cancer Awareness, Pink Ribbon
  • 25 Cents 2006, KM# 635, Canada, Elizabeth II, Breast Cancer Awareness, Pink Ribbon
Description

The pink ribbon is an international symbol of breast cancer awareness. Pink ribbons, and the color pink in general, identify the wearer or promoter with the breast cancer brand and express moral support for women with breast cancer.

Obverse

Fourth portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II, when she was 77 years old, facing right and surrounded with the inscription.

Letter P below the portrait is a composition mark for plated.

Dei Gratia Regina (often abbreviated to D. G. Regina and seen as D·G·REGINA) is a Latin title meaning By the Grace of God, Queen.

Engraver: Susanna Blunt

ELIZABETH II 2006 D • G • REGINA
SB
P

Reverse

A ribbon colored in pink is surrounded with three ribbons between which are written three times the facial value and "CANADA"

The ribbon has been the symbol of awareness and support since 1979 when Penney Laingen, wife of one of the men held prisoners during the Iran hostage crisis, decided to use a yellow ribbon to show support for her husband and the other hostages. Its history goes back much further: it is mentioned in five-hundred-year-old poems, in military marches and in folk songs, even in films. But Penney Laingen used it for first time publicly as a silent voice of support. A decade later, the activist art group Visual AIDS turned the ribbon bright red, looped it, spruced it up and sent it onto the national stage during the Tony Awards, pinned to the chest of actor Jeremy Irons. Again, a symbol of awareness and support.

Engraver: Cosme Saffioti

25 Cents 25 Cents 25 Cents
CANADA CANADA CANADA

Edge

25 Cents

4th portrait
KM# 635 Schön# 648.1
Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Circulating)
Material Nickel Plated Steel
Weight 4.43 g
Diameter 23.88 mm
Thickness 1.58 mm
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Mint
Royal Canadian Mint (RCM)

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