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Simplified Canadian Arms

Simplified Arms Fifty Cents

Simplified Arms Fifty Cents covers 1937–1958 within the fifty cents denomination. Identify the simplified canadian arms 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.

Simplified Arms Fifty Cents obverseSimplified Arms Fifty Cents reverse
Representative 1952 obverse/reverse catalog pair for Simplified Arms Fifty Cents; an identification aid, not a grading photograph. Coins and Canada / Numicanada; catalog cleanup by World Coin Book
1Design generations
22Annual rows
1Technical standards
2Cited sources

Major fifty cents types

Crossed Maple Boughs Fifty Cents · 1870–1936Simplified Arms Fifty Cents · 1937–1958Modified Arms Fifty Cents · 1959–present

Know the boundary before the date

Begin with the Simplified Canadian Arms 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: Simplified Canadian Arms. Obverse: Reigning monarch portrait.
  • Authority and dates — Canada; recorded range 1937–1958.
  • Evidence boundary — Unknown specifications remain unknown; unverified varieties, mintages, and prices stay outside the public catalog.

The historical scope of Simplified Arms Fifty Cents

The cited evidence records Canada as the issuing authority and 1937–1958 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, and records its finish as circulation. Those fields are supported by the sources listed below; missing issue-level transitions are not filled by inference.

  1. 1937 · Simplified Arms — A simplified Arms modernized the reverse.

Design and identification

Begin with the Simplified Canadian Arms 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.

  • Simplified Arms Fifty Cents · 1937–1958 · Not established — Simplified Canadian Arms. Simplified Canadian Arms.

Finish by checking the edge (reeded), composition (silver), and any recorded dimensions or weight; colour or wear alone is not enough for attribution.

Official annual production

This page filters the published 1937–1958 annual rows to the Simplified Arms 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: 32,998,332 · 22 official annual rows

Three anchors that do not depend on price

  • Simplified Arms — A simplified Arms modernized the reverse.

Specifications within this type

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 1937–1958 annual rows to the Simplified Arms 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.

YearDesign contextTechnical standardMintage
1937Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g192,016
1938Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g192,018
1939Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g287,976
1940Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g1,996,566
1941Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g1,714,874
1942Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g1,974,165
1943Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g3,109,583
1944Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g2,460,205
1945Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g1,959,528
1946Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g950,235
1947Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g463,318
1948Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g37,784
1949Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g858,991
1950Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g2,384,179
1951Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g2,421,730
1952Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g2,596,465
1953Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g1,630,429
1954Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g506,305
1955Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g753,511
1956Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g1,379,499
1957Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g2,171,689
1958Simplified Canadian Arms29.72 mm · 11.66 g2,957,266

Collecting paths and checklist

A useful first set represents the design and technical boundaries documented across 1937–1958; 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

  1. 50 centsRoyal Canadian Mint

    Fifty-cent design generations, technical chronology, and infrequent circulation.

  2. Currency ActJustice Laws Website, Government of Canada

    The Canadian dollar, cent relationship, current-coin definition, and legal-tender limits.