Check your 2006 Canaduian 5-cent pieces. There are three different ones to be had!. The Royal Canadian Mint just finished striking 43,000,00 new 2006 5-cent pieces on copper-nickel planchets that had been stored in their vault since before 2002. This is one type of three. They have no mint mark, no privy mark and no "P" plated mark. Another type produced this year is the regular copper-plated 5-cent with the plated letter "P" on the obverse beneath Queeen ElizabethII's effigy. The third type is a copper-plated coin with the Royal Canadian Mint's new privy mark below Queen Elizabeth II's effigy instead of the "P". The new privy mark is their old corporate logo (a circle with the top half of a maple leaf placed above the bottom half of an M. Clinker
Hang in there, they're showing up in a couple of provinces now. Keep checking with your bank. Clinker
That so-called 'privy mark' is actually the new mintmark of the Royal Canadian Mint at Winnipeg,Manitoba.I haven't had any crop up over here in New Zealand yet. Aidan.
Clinker,it was the logo that inspired the design for the new Royal Canadian Mint mintmark.I have seen the logo on the outer cases of Canadian Proof sets from the late 1970's & early 1980's.That is why I am so familiar with it. You're forgetting that I am a specialist in British Commonwealth numismatics,so I am on the lookout for any new coin & banknote varieties from all British Commonwealth countries. Aidan.
Clinker,you will have to post photos of this coin,so that we know what it looks like & know what to look for. Aidan.
