Ken P's What's Notable Site


What's Notable about the Year
1965
for Canadian Coin Collectors?


  • First one cent, five cent, ten cent, 25 cent, fifty cent, and one dollar coins depicting Queen wearing tiara.
  • First one cent, five cent, ten cent, 25 cent, fifty cent, and one dollar coins with beads around rim on obverse.
  • One cent coin appears in four combinations of small/large obverse beads, and blunt/pointed "5" in date.
  • One dollar coin originally produced with a flat field (small beads); then a test with a field sloping up to the edge (medium beads); then full production of sloping field (large beads). Two different styles of "5" in the reverse date were used.
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Other web pages of interest:

  • Chronology of Canadian Coins
  • Canadian Coins: Type Collecting
  • Ken P's Today in History
  • Ken P's Coin/Stamp/Bill Novelties

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