Confusion with the American quarter-dollars, however, was one of the reasons this 1858 Canadian 20-cent piece became a one-year type. (American 25-cent pieces were then widely circulating in Canada.) Most of these 20-cent pieces were soon withdrawn and melted. The authorities were most diligent in this activity—I have read that only about 35,000 pieces remained unrecovered out of the 750,000 pieces minted.
Canada issued its next silver coins in 1870—this time after Confederation (1867), as a Dominion—but when it did so, a Canadian quarter-dollar had taken the place of this 20-cent piece.
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