Canadian 1-cent coin · 1920 - 1936

The two maple leaves

This design, created by Fred Lewis, coincided with a reduction in the 1-cent coin's diameter.

What a coin with this design is made of

Every 1-cent coin carrying this design falls outside the years the Mint records a silver-bearing composition for. There is no silver in any of them, so there is no melt value to work out. What one of these is worth depends on condition and on the date, and this site does not publish figures for either.

Across the years the Mint reports for this design, 124,820,687 1-cent coins were struck.

Denomination

Canadian 1-cent coin

Struck from 1858 and withdrawn from circulation in 2012. Bronze, then plated zinc, then plated steel. It never contained silver.

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Every year of this design

Year	Composition	Silver	Mintage
1920	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc; or 95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	22,246,170
1921	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	7,601,627
1922	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	1,243,635
1923	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	1,019,022
1924	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	1,593,195
1925	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	1,000,622
1926	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	2,143,372
1927	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	3,553,928
1928	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	9,144,860
1929	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	12,159,840
1930	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	2,538,613
1931	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	3,842,776
1932	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	21,316,190
1933	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	12,079,310
1934	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	7,042,358
1935	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	7,526,400
1936	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc	none	8,768,769

Other 1 cent reverses

1858 - 1920

The maple leaf wreath

1937 - 1966, 1968 - 1981, 1997 - present

The maple leaf twig (round coin)

1967

The centennial 1-cent coin

1982 - 1996

The maple leaf twig (12-sided coin)

The design name, its period and the description above are reproduced from the Royal Canadian Mint’s reverse design notes for the 1-cent coin, retrieved 2026-09-04. Compositions and mintages come from the same page. This site publishes no variety, grade or catalogue distinctions, because those are not in the Mint’s record. Methodology.