Canada Mintages

The_Dinosaur_Man

I'm preparing album templates for Canadian coins, starting with the Cent, and plan on including options for the proofs, prooflike, specimen, and other special strike pieces. I have been bouncing back and forth between NGC, Numista, Krause, and Charlton guides. Is there a more singular comprehensive guide I can reference for complete mintage listings?

Greenstang

Charlton Volume 1 for business strikes
Charlton Volume 2 for NCLT strikes

I have both if there is a particular coin that you want info on.

syl

I would say that you should get "A Guidebook of Canadian Coins and Tokens", 1st edition, by James A Haxby. The photos are much better than Charlton, and lots more great info on each coin series, and subseries. Haxby is the guru for Canadian Cents, especially Vickies.

The_Dinosaur_Man

@Greenstang said:
Charlton Volume 1 for business strikes
Charlton Volume 2 for NCLT strikes

I have both if there is a particular coin that you want info on.

After making the initial post, I managed to find mintages for every cent except for the 2003-WP. There are a couple others, like the 1998-P, 1999-P, and 2000-W that I'm not totally sure about.

Greenstang

I might be able to help a bit
Both the 2003WP and 2000W were not available individually, but were only found in sets.
There is no 1998P, the first Plated cents didn't come out until 1999
The 1999P was only issued for testing, mintage unavailable.

The_Dinosaur_Man

How many of the earlier sets were made?

Greenstang

Had to do some research as they were used on various sets.
As far as I can see, the 2003WP was only used on one set with a mintage of 71,420
The 2000W was used on three different sets totaling about 380,000 but this also
included those without the W. The mint didn't specify how many had the W and how
many didn't so if you split it there were probably around 190,000 struck.

The_Dinosaur_Man

That is perfect! Over the weekend I should be able to create a digital album template and can post it back here. I plan on doing the other denominations too and eventually a small book for the $5 and $10 gold.

TomB

@The_Dinosaur_Man said:
That is perfect! Over the weekend I should be able to create a digital album template and can post it back here. I plan on doing the other denominations too and eventually a small book for the $5 and $10 gold.

I don't know if this fits your plans or not, but the Newfoundland $2 gold series is only eight coins and they are small. Perhaps they would go well with the six coin $5 and $10 Canadian pieces?

The_Dinosaur_Man

@TomB said:

@The_Dinosaur_Man said:
That is perfect! Over the weekend I should be able to create a digital album template and can post it back here. I plan on doing the other denominations too and eventually a small book for the $5 and $10 gold.

I don't know if this fits your plans or not, but the Newfoundland $2 gold series is only eight coins and they are small. Perhaps they would go well with the six coin $5 and $10 Canadian pieces?

That would make a neat combination album! I have made a standalone small set for the Newfoundland $2 pieces.

Greenstang

Very nice looking albums.
If you are considering doing one for Canadian Cents, then I hope that you are aware that they
are not all the exact same size. I found this out years ago when I bought a Canadian Cent album
for my grandaughter and that some fit right, some were loose and others had to be forced in because
the holes were all the same size. THe difference is minute but enough to affect inserting the coins.

The_Dinosaur_Man

What I usually do when there are differences in diameters is go by the largest average size (typically after measuring one or more coins with digital calipers). Earlier U.S. coins have a similar minute range and that has proved frustrating at times.

I'm including the post-2012 commemorative cents as options as well. Maybe not the supersized coins, but at least the regular sized ones should someone someday want to build a book that has everything.