CoinsCanadian Silver Dollars, 1935–1967 → 1939 Canadian Silver Dollar

1939 Canadian Silver Dollar

Ottawa Mint
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Why this coin matters

The 1939 Canadian Silver Dollar was struck at the Ottawa Mint with a recorded mintage of 1,363,816 coins — the 20th-lowest of the 29 circulation-strike issues in the canadian silver dollar series.

The published record is not unanimous on this figure: 1,363,919 in some references. The file leads with the figure most references agree on and records the dissent rather than deciding it.

The Royal Visit commemorative - Parliament on the reverse and a mintage sized for a nation of eleven million welcoming its King.

A full collector's note for this issue — survival, strike character, and what to check before buying — is on the writing schedule; the figures above are the permanent record.

Mintage: the 1939 canadian silver dollar, mint by mint

IssueMintMintage
1939 Canadian Silver DollarOttawa1,363,816

The 1939 in its series

Sources

Mintage figures: United States Mint (Annual Report of the Director of the Mint) and Royal Canadian Mint records, cross-checked across independent published references. Specifications: United States Mint coin specifications.

The mintage is the only number that never changes. This is where it lives.