Canadian Silver Coins

Canadian Silver Coins: Silver Dollars

The first Canadian silver dollar was minted in 1935 to commemorate the jubilee of King George V. The Royal Canadian Mint produced a lot of silver dollars from 1935 to 1966 with silver content 80% or higher. These dollars contain sterling silver, unlike modern coins that contains no silver at all or modern silver bullion coins (Silver Maple Leaf Coins) that contain .9999 pure silver. Also The Royal Canadian Mint issued many silver dollars between 1966 and 2009, but with silver content 50% or less. Most of the coins can be purchased as junk coins.

Silver Maple Leaf Coins

The Canadian Royal Mint issued in 1988 the first Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coin. All Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coins have one oz of 99.99% pure silver. The face value of Canadian Silver Maple Leaf Coin is five dollars.

You can see a sculpture of Queen Elizabeth II the obverse of each Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coin and a single maple leaf (the national symbol of Canada) on the reverse. There is a high demand for Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coins because they have annually the lowest mintages of all other silver bullion coins produced in America (e.g. American silver eagle coins are mintedin virtually unlimited quantities each year).

Today Canadian Silver Maple Leafs are one of the most popular silver coins in the world. Canadian silver dollars and Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coins are an excellent investment for precious metal investor and for any coin collectors.

Canadian Coin Prices and Canadian Coin Values

Canadian Coin Prices (or value) for Canadian silver dollars and Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coins are based on the current market spot price of silver plus a small premium.

Canadian Coins for Sale

On the market Silver Maple Leafs coins are usually sold a few cents per oz cheaper than U.S. Mint Silver Eagles coins. Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coins are packaged twenty-five coins to a tube and twenty tubes to a box.

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