Canada 2025 5 cents KM-3537
This specimen was lot 3293 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "CANADA: Charles III, 2022-, AR 5 cents, 2025, the 50th Anniversary of North American Beaver (Castor canadensis) as an Official Symbol of Canada, contains 3.557 troy ounces of pure silver, mintage of only 1,650, scarce, with COA and original Royal Canadian Mint case of issue, Proof. The coin’s reverse is an innovative multidimensional rendering of Canada’s five-cent circulation coin design by G. E. Kruger Gray. The words "5 CENTS" and "CANADA" are engraved on the reverse’s top plate surface, and at the center, the iconic beaver is surrounded by cut-outs revealing the landscape elements (clouds and water) and the year ("2025") engraved on the interior surface." This beaver reverse was first used on the five cents in 1937.
Recorded mintage: 1,650.
Specification: 110.66 g, 0.999 fine silver 55 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-3537.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 2001-Date, 13th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2018.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 55, featuring Selections from the Swamperbob Gurney Collection of Cap & Ray 8 Reales, the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins and the 1914 Collection of World Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2026.
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