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| Emittent | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Jahr | 1955-1962 |
| Typ | Standard circulation coin |
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| Aversschrift | Latin |
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| Reversbeschreibung | A naturalistic beaver, the national emblem of Canada, is depicted in profile seated upon a rocky mound at centre, facing left. The word CANADA arcs below the central device in the lower field. The denomination 5 CENTS is distributed around the upper periphery, with a maple leaf flanking each side of the design at the lateral margins. The engraver's initials K·G· appear in the lower right field. The composition is clean and well-balanced within the twelve-sided flan, with the date appearing in the lower field adjacent to the beaver device. |
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Canada's switch from the original Kruger-Gray beaver design in pure nickel came with postwar metal policy shifts, as wartime silver conservation had already pushed the five-cent piece through several compositions in a single decade. The 1955–1962 nickel series is unremarkable in most respects, but the 1955 "No Shoulder Fold" and "Shoulder Fold" varieties — distinguishable by a subtle detail in the truncation of Gillick's portrait — generate disproportionate collector interest relative to their face value.
Mary Gillick's effigy, used here in its earliest Canadian iteration, had to be re-engraved after the original master was found to strike weakly on the hair and shoulder detail.