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A Short Intro To Collection North American Coins

By George Lapidis


The minting of Canadian silver coins was introduced by the Royal Canadian mint in 1935. This year was to mark the silver jubilee of King George V and to commemorate that the the primary Canadian silver coin was minted. Emmanuel Hahn design was credited for making the details that is shaped on the other side of the coin.

The 1935 Canadian silver coin show a portrait of a Voyageur along side with a birch barks canoe and aboriginal paddling. The coin also has some faded lines in the background which are meant to sinify Northern lights. This silver coin continues to be minted and employed up until 1986.

The first Canadian silver dollar coin distributed in 1935 had a total of ten varieties. every one of these design was then classified into 3 different classification. The primary of these was the pointed seven followed by the rounded seven and then the most weel-known of them all, the Maple leaf issue.

Of the Voyageur, there are 10 varieties that may can be located, all of which can be calssified into additional subcategories. These grouping are generally utilized by coin collectors to arrange and label their Canadian silver dollars, and it is a fact that the most favoured of all the issue would be the ones from 1947 and 1948, as these years are part of limited production in terms of total mintages. Given this, these coins are very much treasured by numismatists and pick up pretty prices, specifically the 1948 silver dollar.

The remaining varities are actually grouped according to the stylistic presentation or detail of the number "7" from the year on the minted coins. A single selection is labelled as the Pointed Seven, which has the digit's lower tail pointing to the right. Of this particular variety, there are at least six more sub-varieties to be found, each one with their distinctive markings and features added to the base.

The first Maple leaf issue was minted in 1947 which featured the Maple leaf near the seven. The other Maple leaf issue was also minted in the similar year but had an supplementary double punched HP stamped right below the effigy of King George.

The Royal Canadian mint had procedural problems that arose in the 1950s which led to numerous of unique selections of Canadian silver coins. One of the productions that came about during this period the time mirrored the canoe on the Canadian Voyageur Dollar having four light water lines at its end. However when the coins were refined some of these lines eliminated as a result.

These caused more incosistency in the versions that were being shaped and improved yearly. As a result coin collectors began designating different philosophy to the different varieties of the similar Canadian silver coin depending upon the collection of lines that they had. Therefore a Canadian silver coin which had correct water lines was appreciated adversely from one that had incomplete lines.

Few of the prior and rare Voyageur Dollars are prized very highly by coin collectors. These are important memorial products of the history of Canada as well as interesting works of art translated into currency.




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