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5 Cents - Elizabeth II 2nd portrait
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 1965-1981 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts a North American Beaver (Castor canadensis) seated atop a log, facing left, rendered in naturalistic detail after the design originally introduced by G.E. Kruger-Gray. The denomination 5 CENTS appears above the beaver, while CANADA is inscribed below the log in the lower field. A single maple leaf flanks each side of the central device. The year of issue and mint engraver's initials K·G appear in the lower field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Canada's five-cent piece shifted from silver to nickel in 1922, making the Royal Canadian Mint one of the earliest national mints to adopt the metal for circulation coinage at scale. By the 1965 portrait update — replacing Gillick's first Elizabethan effigy with Machin's second — the coin had been nickel for over four decades, well-established in Canadian pockets but chronically disliked by vending machine operators who lobbied repeatedly against its size and electromagnetic properties throughout the 1970s.
The KM#60.1 and #60.2 varieties differ in the positioning of the beads relative to the rim — a minor but catalogued distinction that emerged from die modifications mid-series.