In April 1998, the Mint announced the Millennium Coin Design
Contest, a contest open to all Canadians to submit designs for
twenty-four millennium quarters, one for each month of 1999 and
2000. The 1999 designs were meant to look back on Canada's
past, while the 2000 designs looked to the future. While the 1999
coins were labeled with their month of issue, the 2000 coins were
labeled with the relevant themes.
Design
The obverse design features Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at 64
years old, wearing a new crown, surrounded by the Latin
inscription "ELIZABETH II D. G. REGINA". This was the first effigy
to be designed by a Canadian, Dora de Pédery-Hunt.
Designed by Eric (Kong Tat) Hui, the coin features a scenery,
which shows an insight of arts in three millenniums. It is
surrounded with the bilingual inscriptions "CANADA" and
"CREATIVITY 2000 CRÉATIVITÉ".
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