Crossed-maple-bough half dollar
Crossed Maple Boughs Fifty Cents
Crossed Maple Boughs Fifty Cents covers 1870–1936 within the fifty cents denomination. Identify the value within crossed maple boughs and crown reverse before applying the overlapping official technical standards or annual production rows.
Scope is limited to the verified type or program level. Issue mintages, prices, varieties, and survival estimates are not inferred from this summary.
Major fifty cents types
Know the boundary before the date
Begin with the Value within crossed maple boughs and crown reverse, then confirm the Reigning monarch portrait obverse. Compare date, portrait, denomination, reeded edge, dimensions, weight, and metal response together. Wear, cleaning, plating disturbance, or environmental colour is not, by itself, evidence of a new type or variety.
- Primary identifiers — Reverse: Value within crossed maple boughs and crown. Obverse: Reigning monarch portrait.
- Authority and dates — Canada; recorded range 1870–1936.
- Evidence boundary — Unknown specifications remain unknown; unverified varieties, mintages, and prices stay outside the public catalog.
The historical scope of Crossed Maple Boughs Fifty Cents
The cited evidence records Canada as the issuing authority and 1870–1936 as this type or program boundary. It belongs to the Fifty cents branch and is classified by authority, principal design, and documented physical generations. A narrower subtype should be added only when measurements, composition, or design evidence supports the split.
The catalog places this record in the Fifty cents branch, records its material scope as silver; fineness changed in 1920, and records its finish as circulation. Those fields are supported by the sources listed below; missing issue-level transitions are not filled by inference.
- 1870 · Federal fifty cents — The crossed-bough silver denomination entered federal coinage.
- 1908 · Ottawa table begins — The official annual table begins.
Design and identification
Begin with the Value within crossed maple boughs and crown reverse, then confirm the Reigning monarch portrait obverse. Compare date, portrait, denomination, reeded edge, dimensions, weight, and metal response together. Wear, cleaning, plating disturbance, or environmental colour is not, by itself, evidence of a new type or variety.
- Crossed Maple Boughs Fifty Cents · 1870–1936 · Not established — Value within crossed maple boughs and crown. Crossed-maple-bough half dollar.
Finish by checking the edge (reeded), composition (silver; fineness changed in 1920), and any recorded dimensions or weight; colour or wear alone is not enough for attribution.
Official annual production
This page filters the published 1908–1936 annual rows to the Crossed Maple Boughs Fifty Cents type boundary. Special reverses or parallel issues can be included in denomination-level annual totals; an unsplit total is not represented as design-only production.
Displayed-row sum: 6,256,353 · 29 official annual rows
Three anchors that do not depend on price
- Federal fifty cents — The crossed-bough silver denomination entered federal coinage.
- Ottawa table begins — The official annual table begins.
Specifications within this type
1908 – 1919 · Round
- Composition
- 92.5% silver, 7.5% copper
- Weight
- 11.62 g
- Diameter
- 29.72 mm
- Thickness
- Not stated
1920 – 1967 · Round
- Composition
- 80% silver, 20% copper
- Weight
- 11.66 g
- Diameter
- 29.72 mm
- Thickness
- Not stated
Official annual production catalog
This page filters the published 1908–1936 annual rows to the Crossed Maple Boughs Fifty Cents type boundary. Special reverses or parallel issues can be included in denomination-level annual totals; an unsplit total is not represented as design-only production.
| Year | Design context | Technical standard | Mintage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1908 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.62 g | 128,119 |
| 1909 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.62 g | 203,118 |
| 1910 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.62 g | 649,521 |
| 1911 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.62 g | 209,972 |
| 1912 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.62 g | 285,867 |
| 1913 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.62 g | 265,889 |
| 1914 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.62 g | 160,128 |
| 1915 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.62 g | 0 |
| 1916 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.62 g | 459,070 |
| 1917 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.62 g | 752,213 |
| 1918 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.62 g | 854,989 |
| 1919 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.62 g | 1,113,429 |
| 1920 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 584,429 |
| 1921 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 206,398 |
| 1922 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 0 |
| 1923 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 0 |
| 1924 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 0 |
| 1925 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 0 |
| 1926 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 0 |
| 1927 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 0 |
| 1928 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 0 |
| 1929 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 228,328 |
| 1930 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 0 |
| 1931 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 57,581 |
| 1932 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 19,213 |
| 1933 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 0 |
| 1934 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 39,539 |
| 1935 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 0 |
| 1936 | Crossed-maple-bough half dollar | 29.72 mm · 11.66 g | 38,550 |
Collecting paths and checklist
A useful first set represents the design and technical boundaries documented across 1870–1936; portrait, composition, or program generations can follow when their evidence is secure. Issue mintages, rarity labels, variety names, prices, and survivor estimates require separate verification and are not inferred from this type summary.
- One-coin type study — Choose one representative that clearly shows the principal obverse and reverse, then learn the type boundary.
- Design and technical generations — Add a generation only when sources confirm a change in composition, shape, size, edge, or principal design.
- Source-backed date study — Expand into dates or varieties only after issue identity, specifications, and production evidence are verified field by field.
Collector checklist
- Do not clean the coin; cleaning changes surfaces and can obscure evidence.
- Compare date, portrait, design, edge, weight, diameter, and metal response together.
- Have consequential or high-value attributions reviewed by an appropriate specialist or certification service.
- Catalog information is research context, not an appraisal, offer, or investment guarantee.
Data scope
This page publishes reviewed denomination- and major-type-level evidence. Years not published by the Mint remain unknown, zero appears only when the source reports zero, and prices or survivor estimates are not inferred from production.
Sources
- 50 centsRoyal Canadian Mint
Fifty-cent design generations, technical chronology, and infrequent circulation.
- Currency ActJustice Laws Website, Government of Canada
The Canadian dollar, cent relationship, current-coin definition, and legal-tender limits.
- A History of the Canadian DollarBank of Canada
Decimal adoption, 1858 coinage, 1870 Dominion coinage, provincial issues, Newfoundland, and mint history.