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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;toddestan, post: 157995, member: 6366&quot;]The 1947 Maple Leaf is similar, but the story is a bit different.&nbsp; The following is my understanding of it.&nbsp; In 1947, India became independent, thus the motto on the obverse of the coin which refered to India being under British control was no longer correct.&nbsp; However, it took some time for the Canadian mint to get new obverse dies for their coinage, so they continued to mint coins with the old obverse dies with the Maple Leaf after the date to signify the change.&nbsp; This continued well into 1948.&nbsp; This is why the 1948 dated Canadian ten cents has a low mintage (422,741 coins according to my album) and is considered one of the key coins in the set.&nbsp; However, both varieties of the 1947 dated ten cent coins are relatively common.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, the change from George VI to Elizabeth II didn&#039;t happen until 1953.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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