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Message:: [QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 26255092, member: 104064"]I've posted these before, but here's my set of Canada 1947 Maple Leaf coins. India gained its independence in 1947, so in 1948 Canada didn't want ET IND: IMP: on their coinage, because George VI was no longer Emperor of India. But all their dies were made by the Royal Mint, which was slow to produce the new DEI GRATIA REX obverse. Demand for new coins was strong so they decided to put a maple leaf on all of them to indicate that they were 1948 coins but with the old design. I've always found it curious that the mintage of the 1947 ML dollar was nearly as low as the famous 1948 - 21,135 versus 18,780 - yet in UNC their value is one-third of the 1948. Collectors see them as a variety of 1947 instead of "the other scarce 1948." The half dollar had two varieties of the 7, straight aka curved left, and curved right. The curved right is very scarce, with I think less than 200 estimated struck in both circulation and specimen. The circulation coin is difficult to find and quite expensive, so most collectors settle for a specimen, which I have done. All except for the two halves came from my grandfather. I think I have the cent somewhere but apparently never photographed it. [ATTACH=full]1677155[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1677156[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1677157[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1677158[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1677159[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1677160[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]