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5 Cents In the name of George VI, Caribou
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Diameter | 38 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Royal Canadian Mint, Ottawa |
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This is a bullion restrike of the wartime "tombac" five-cent design, not a circulation issue. During 1942–43, Canada abandoned nickel for the five-cent piece entirely — the metal was critical to Allied armour production — and struck instead from a brass alloy of copper and zinc. The dodecagonal shape was introduced precisely to distinguish that tombac coin from gold in poor lighting conditions. The .9999 silver restrike carries none of that industrial urgency, but the wartime substitution it commemorates was among the more direct examples of domestic coinage being reshaped by military logistics.