Silver Maple Leaf coins
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About Silver Maple Leaf coins
The Canadian Silver Maple Leaf is a silver bullion coin minted annually by the Royal Canadian Mint since 1988. The Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coins are now among most popular members of the Canadian Maple Leaf family of bullion coins.
The Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coin contains one troy ounce of pure .9999 fine (or "four-nines") silver, making it the purest one-ounce silver coin produced by any government mint anywhere in the world.
It is a legal tender coin with a face value of five Canadian dollars, the highest face value of any one-ounce government-minted silver bullion coin.
Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coins annually have the lowest mintages of all North American silver coins.
1-oz Maple Leaf coins are also produced by the Royal Canadian Mint in gold, platinum and palladium.
Design of Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coins
The Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coin measures 38mm in diameter and is 2.87mm thick. The obverse of the Silver Maple Leaf coin features an image of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, inscriptions "Elizabeth II", the legal tender face value "5 Dollars" and the date, the reverse features the widely-recognized image of Canada's national symbol, the maple leaf, inscriptions "Canada", "9999 Fine Silver", "9999 Argent Pur", and "1 oz".
Annual variations for the coin in past have included a coloured maple leaf (with a design different from the regular maple leaf), holographic enhancements and several differing designs. The one universal element in all silver maple leaf coins is the phrase "Fine Silver 1 oz Argent Pur" along the bottom of the obverse of the coin.
Three head images of Queen Elizabeth II were issued, ranging from a young to an older version of the Queen.
Specifications of Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coins
Diameter: 38mm
Thickness: 2.87mm
Weight: 31.104g
Purity: .9999
First Released: 1988
Legal Tender: CAD$5
Mint: Royal Canadian Mint
Storing Silver Maple Leaf coins
Silver Maple Leaf coins are stored in efficient stackable cases of 500, - 20 tubes with 25 silver coins in each tube. Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coins case has dimensions 25 cm long X 20 cm wide X 12 cm deep and weight 16 kg.
Mintage of Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coins
The overall mintages for Canadian Silver Maple Leaf coins varied for each year based on demand. Some years have particularly high mintages such as the first three years of issue, driven by demand for the new silver bullion coin.
1988 - 1,062,000
1989 - 3,332,200
1990 - 1,708,800
1991 - 644,300
1992 - 343,800
1993 - 1,133,900
1994 - 889,946
1995 - 326,244
1996 - 250,445
1997 - 100,970
1998 - 591,359
1999, 1999-2000 - 1,229,442
2000 - 403,652
2001 - 398,563
2002 - 576,196
2003 - 684,750
2004 - 680,925
2005 - 955,694
2006 - 2,464,727
2007 - 3,526,052
Mintage of Coloured Silver Maple Leaf coins
2001 - 49,709
2002 - 29,509
2003 - 29,416
2004 - 26,848
2005 - 27,000
2006 - 20,000
2007 - 20,000
Mintage of Hologram Silver Maple Leaf coins
2001 - 29,817
2003 - 28,947
2003 - 29,731
2005 - 25,000
