Canadian 1 cent coins question

JonMN34

When did the mint marks start for the Canadian cents?
Thanks, can't find it any where.
Jon

lordmarcovan

There are mintmarks on Canadian cents?

JonMN34

Yeah, apparently you can find at least 2006s with none, a maple leaf, a P and I think one other.
I was curious when they started this

Muygrandeoso

Hello,

The first mintmark on a Canadian cent appeared on the 1876H (Heaton)

britintexas

I think they were reintroduced in 2003 but I could be wrong...

ColinCMR

There were H mintmarks for some issues of the large cents. This was done when the Royal Mint in the UK needed to outsource some production to the Heaton Mint, also in the UK

The Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) opened in Ottawa in 1908, and did not use a mintmark on Canadian coins, but had a C mark on some Newfoundland coins.

There are 3 mintmarks on Canadian coins starting in the 1990s.
From some proof-like (uncirculated) sets there is a W mintmark, for the Winnipeg mint, a branch of the RCM.

Plating of some circulation strikes began in 2000, because it was cheaper, yet lots of blanks were already produced and market pricing sometimes made the standard metal affordable. Plated strikes have a P mintmark (presumably for Plated), while the standard metals have no mintmark.

Some plated coins were made in 1999 for calibrating coin machines and for a mint set but were not largely circulated.

In 2006 a new mintmark was introduced, with a small RCM emblem.

So from 1999 - 2006, there are P and no-P varieties, and from 2006-present there is the RCM variety. Making multiple varieties for the year 2006.

As for 1 cents, 1999-2006 there are P and no-P varieties for each year.
in 2006 there is a P, noP and RCM variety
and 2007, 2008 just have RCM from what i know

Off my head i forget what years have a W mintmark, I think 1997 and 2000 do

JonMN34

Thank you all very much, much more helpful than what I've been finding elsewhere.
Jon

lordmarcovan

OK, I knew about the H-mintmarked large cents. But the mintmarks on the more modern ones were news to me.

ColinCMR

It seems to have started with the prooflike (UNC) sets from the Winnipeg mint, i think they issued one set with no mintmark and its hard to discern if it is ottawa or winnipeg, so they started putting W mintmarks on the Winnipeg sets, which were not issued ever year.

But there are no W mintmark circulating coins. Although, i found one, which somebody took out of a set, damaged PL.

The P mintmark, is not really a mintmark, it just differentiates the plated coins from non-plated regular planchets.

And the RCM mark is more like advertising I guess, seeing how it is on all the circulating coins now.

ColinCMR

There is a further variety in many of the issues, with some coins being magnetic or non magnetic, but I don't really have details on it