Canadian Nickel - Keepers?

GarouLady · May 1, 2013

I have been looking through nickels for almost a year now and I have a pretty good amount of canadian nickels. Are there any Keydates for canadian? Just throwing the question out there.

Sincerely, GarouLady

Mackaydon · May 1, 2013

If you found one dated 1921 you might consider giving up your day job. While 2.5+ M were minted, only about 400 are known today. Their current value (retail) ranges from about $4k in VG-8 up to $28k in MS-63. Back in '89 a BU sold for $57,200.
Better still would be to find a 1944 in Tombac Brass (versus Chrome Steel). 8k were minted but only one is known.
Good hunting,
Don...

Thorne · May 1, 2013

I like those tombac ones. I got one from a Co worker for a whipping 50 cents

GarouLady · May 2, 2013

tombac nickels? I will double check my canadian collection. I think I have like 10-15 of those. Thanks for the info.

Sincerely, GarouLady

Mackaydon · May 2, 2013

The '42 Tombac has a pic of a beaver on the reverse; the '43 and '44 have the torch between the 'V' design. By far, the most common is the '43 (at nearly 25 M minted) then the '42 at 3.4 M minted; followed by the '44 which, I understand, has a known population of one (1) but 8,000 were minted.
Don....
PS: What you might find interesting is that on the Victory coin the rim denticles were replaced by the phrase "We win when we work willingly", in Morse Code, to promote the war effort.

sagittarius98 · Jun 30, 2013

The pre-1982 ones are solid nickel, and are worth 6 cents each in metal right now.

disarray · Apr 19, 2018

Hello,

@Mackaydon is correct, there is only one 1944 Tombac Canadian 5 cent piece in the world--My father is the current owner of that rare coin. As you may have read in the April 17th issue of the Canadian Coin News, he will be putting it up for auction on eBay this month.
Thanks