Talk:Nickel (Canadian coin)

Mintage by Year

Does anyone think it would be a good idea to add a chart with the number of nickels and varieties minted for each year?

-Share Bear 03:28, 6 April 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Share Bear (talk • contribs)

If one follows the reference I have just added (see History of Composition, and References) to the Royal Canadian Mint website, the annual mintages from 1908 are shown there, and kept up-to-date. The "from 1908" is presumably because that's when the Mint in Canada began operations. Variety mintages are not shown, I don't know offhand where that is available. --RCopple (talk) 17:26, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

I found a fairly reliable source: The Standard Catalog of World Coins. It's available on archive.org, which is great since the book itself is pretty pricey. Though, I have noticed that some of the values in the catalogs differ from the ones provided by the Royal Canadian Mint, sometimes in the magnitude of 100,000, and sometimes 1,000. Some of them could also be typos (e.g. 1918 is listed in the catalog as mintage 6,052,298, while RCM lists it as 6,052,289), but others I can't shake the idea that I'm missing something (e.g. 1910, catalog says 3,850,325, but RCM says 5,850,325?) Stranger still is that sometimes the RCM's annual reports[1] contradict their own mintages (e.g. 2010, RCM 5 cent piece page reports mintage 126,800,000, but annual report discloses 126,840,000). I also looked through the "J&M's Catalogue of Canadian Coins"[2] site that was used to get the mintages on the penny's page, but it doesn't seem to be consistent. Sometimes it reports the same numbers as the World Coins Catalog (e.g. 1926) but sometimes the same as RCM (e.g.1995), and sometimes something different entirely (e.g.1910).

Might be safe to trust the RCM site for 1908 onwards, and the catalog for anything prior, but it'd be nice to get a more concrete source for those earlier years. JazzHandsIncarnate (talk) 17:34, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Spelling

Being a Canadian article, should not the occurrences of the word 'nickel' become 'nickle', since that is the preferred Canadian spelling? DarrenBaker (talk) 02:02, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

DarrenBaker: Nickle is considered a misspelling in Canada and elsewhere such as Britain. I almost wish you were correct, though; far more words end with -ickle than -ickel, for starters. Mebden (talk) 12:56, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

1921 5 Cent Coin

Detailed discussion on the 1911 $1 seems better suited in the $1 coin article. Reference to the rarity of the $1 coin here for comparison seems enough.
SquashEngineer (talk) 15:52, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

2017 Commemorative Nickel

A 1967-2017 Commemorative nickel celebrating Canada's 150 year anniversary since Confederation was issued for all in circulation coin denominations, including the nickel. The reverse image, LIVING TRADITIONS, by Gerald Gloade reimagines the quintessential Canadian beaver in the traditional style of the Algonkian, celebrating 150 years of cultures meeting, sharing and evolving together. SquashEngineer (talk) 19:09, 13 November 2023 (UTC)