From 1912 to 1914 Canada struck $5.00 and $10.00 gold coins to the same purity and weight standards as American $5.00 and $10.00 gold coins. Both are of a 90% gold and 10% copper alloy, with the $5.00 21.6 mm and 8.36 grams, and the $10.00 16.7 mm and 26.92 grams. Other than the denominations below the date, they have identical design wither the obverse by E. B. Mackennal and the reverse by W. Blakemore.
The Government of Canada was holding thousands of these coins ever since they were minted, which make them scarce in the market place. Recently the government sold much of those holdings and destroy many others when they refined them to recover the gold. The huge release, combined with lots of advertising created an interesting market for them, but also completely altered the supply to demand ratios for the various dates. This will have an effect on the long term prices, and we may find that the dates that were previously the rarest because they were nearly all still at the mint, are now of average rarity or even the commonest since the mint has released so many of them. It is currently not possibly to predict where they will eventually settle out although I will make my best guess below.
$5 and $10 GOLD
$5.00 GOLD
Just looking at the mintages, the 1912 has the highest, 1913 middle and 1914 the lowest and that was reflected directly in the market up to the recent release. Because of the recent mint release it is like that the survival rate in circulated condition will still have 1912 the commonest, but in mint state it now likely 1913 is the most common, 1912 in the middle, but due to it's much lower mintage 1914 will probably still be the rarest but not by the same degree it use to be.
IMAGE OF 1912 to 1914 $5.00 TYPE ONLY
$10.00 GOLD
Just looking at the mintages, the 1912 has the lowest yet the easiest to fine, 1913 middle and 1914 the lowest and rarest. The survival rate in circulated condition will still have 1912 the highest as those were released in 1912 and circulated. Due to the recent mint release of uncirculated coins, it is now likely the survival rate in mint condition will be about the same for 1913 and 1914 (they have similar mintage) and 1912 will be the rarest although since 1912 was never considered rare before, this means all three are now fairly common.
IMAGE OF 1912 to 1914 $10.00 TYPE ONLY
Canadian Mint Gold Sovereigns
GOLD SOVEREIGNS
From 1908 to 1919 with the exception of 1912 and 1915, gold sovereigns were struck at the Royal Canadian mint with a C mint mark on the ground line below the horse's hoof. 1913 has the lowest mintage at about 3700, and 1916 is second lowest about just over 6000. 1913's show up but for unknown reasons very few (possibly less than 20) 1916 C sovereigns are now known to exist and it is not known what happened to the rest. The mint has no record of destroying them, and while some people think they were lost in a ship sunk during World War I, there is a possibility they are all sitting in some bank vault as just a bag of sovereigns and might come to light some day (as happened with the 1916 London mint sovereigns that used to be rare).
Canada Gold Sovereign TYPE ONLY
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