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5 Cents In the name of George VI, 1947 Maple Leaf Mark
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Diameter | 50 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a faithful large-scale reproduction of the iconic 1947 Maple Leaf five-cent piece, featuring George Edward Kruger Gray's celebrated beaver design. The industrious beaver is depicted seated atop a log in the central field, rendered in high relief with fine naturalistic detail. A raised rim frames the design, mimicking the twelve-sided dodecagonal outline of the original circulation coin despite this issue being struck in round format. The date '1947' appears in the lower field, accompanied by a small maple leaf — the diagnostic mark indicating that the dies were carried over and used for striking in 1948, after India's independence rendered the reverse legend outdated. The denomination '5 CENTS', country name 'CANADA', and designer's initials 'K·G' complete the reverse inscriptions, with selective gold plating applied to highlight key design elements. |
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The original 1947 Maple Leaf nickel it commemorates exists because of a postwar constitutional peculiarity: when India gained independence in 1947, the Royal Canadian Mint had already prepared dies bearing George VI's title "Emperor of India." Rather than scrap the year's production, the mint added a tiny maple leaf after the date to signal that these pieces were struck under revised royal titles — one of the more pragmatic solutions to a die-preparation crisis in modern Commonwealth coinage.