1947 Pointed 7-Maple Leaf Canadian cent with a little history.

[makecents]

A recent connection, with a guy who comes across different coins and denominations, gave me a jar of mixed cents to go through. When I say mixed, I mean mixed! I have found 1910 to 2019 Lincolns in this jar and some other countries' cents also.

So, in this conglomeration of coins, I ran across a Canadian cent with an emblem next to the date, I had never seen this before. I dug around and found some interesting info on the emblem though. In 1948 the legend on the obverse was going to change and the new dies were not done in time for the beginning of the 1948 year. They had a shortage of cents because of this and in order to fix the shortage problem, minted 1947 coins with the maple leaf emblem to show they were 47's minted in 48. I thought it was a pretty neat bit of history to learn! Mine would appear to be the "pointed 7 maple leaf", which, surprisingly enough is worth less than the previous or following year.

Link for reasoning for the maple leaf. (https://coinsite.com/1947-canadian-maple-leaf-cent/)
Link for three different 1947 coins. (http://www.coinsandcanada.com/coins-...cent-1937-1952)

Thanks for checking it out.

Jon.

[GrumpyEd]

I never heard of the blunt/pointed 7s.

The ML ones are well known, even if you have a US coin book that has a few pages for Canada they list the 47 and 47ML, neither is rare but the regular is worth a tiny bit more.


Sounds like the US after 64, they sort of tried to cure a coin shortage by pumping out lots of quarters. even today I get a lot of 65 and 67 quarters.

People might think the mint immediately wanted to pull back silver after they went to clad. I've never heard of the mints trying to sort and pull back the silver. They did the opposite, in 65 they cranked out tons of clad (over a billion quarters) maybe because people pulling silver coins created a shortage. They also stopped putting mintmarks on coins from 65-66-67 so collectors had less reason to pull them from circulation. The mint wasn't trying to claw back silver quarters, they were still making 1964 dated silver quarters until 1966. (so that's why it reminds me of your post). I'm not sure if they were still making 1964 dimes and halves after 1964.

Another year that they did weird dates is 1975, in 1975 they made 1974 dated quarters and the 1976 bicentennial quarters but they made no 1975 dated quarters at all.

[makecents]

Thanks Ed!! I just thought this was interesting, even though it is apparenty not rare, just a cool, common variety, with a neat story. I zoomed in on the regular 47, without the emblem and it would appear to be blunt/clipped, also. Maybe the pointed 7 was re-engraved, at some point, when they added the emblem on the master die.

That's good info on the 65 quarter, I did not know that but I have ran across many 65's in regular change over the years and always thought that was odd. Now I know!

[Petespockets55]

That's an interesting back story on the Canadian cent for '47.

And its interesting that '64 US silver quarters were produced into '66. Sounds like there should be some 90% wrong planchet's out there somewhere?

Whoops, here one is! LINK

[makecents]

That's an interesting back story on the Canadian cent for '47.

And its interesting that '64 US silver quarters were produced into '66. Sounds like there should be some 90% wrong planchet's out there somewhere?

Whoops, here one is! LINK

Very cool varieties Cliff, thanks!! Legitimate 2 tail quarters and a 90% silver 68S! I was not aware of the 65 silver they spoke of either.

[GrumpyEd]

That's an interesting back story on the Canadian cent for '47.

And its interesting that '64 US silver quarters were produced into '66. Sounds like there should be some 90% wrong planchet's out there somewhere?

Whoops, here one is! LINK

Those are very rare! The silver ones they made in 65 were errors, maybe a planchet left behind.
The 1964 dated stuff was intentional, it is odd that more silver dated 65 or 66 is so scarce since they still had silver planchets.

Another thing is, 65-66-67 were not all made at the P mint even though all are P. I think all of the mints were making coins with no MMs including the cents.

[jfines69]

Cool find Jon... I am glad there was a pick of the pointed and blunt 7... My first thought on yours was a blunt but comparing it with the pics I see the difference of a blunt vs pointed... I think it was a good idea they didn't attempt to change the 7 to an 8 for using the 47 dies in 48!!!

[makecents]

Cool find Jon... I am glad there was a pick of the pointed and blunt 7... My first thought on yours was a blunt but comparing it with the pics I see the difference of a blunt vs pointed... I think it was a good idea they didn't attempt to change the 7 to an 8 for using the 47 dies in 48!!!

Thanks Jim!! I thought it was an interesting back story.