Disclosures

Affiliate links

CoinsCanada.com participates in the eBay Partner Network. When a page links to eBay, that link carries a tracking parameter identifying this site, and if you go on to buy something eBay may pay us a commission. It costs you nothing extra and it does not change the price you pay.

Every such link is labelled “Affiliate link” in the text immediately beside it. Not in a footer, not on this page only, but at the point where you might click it. All of them carry rel="sponsored nofollow". The campaign identifier travels in the query string of every one of them and is visible to anyone who hovers a link, so there is no point pretending it is confidential: it is 5339193975.

Those links always point at completed and sold listings rather than at active ones. That is a deliberate choice against our own interest. Active listings show what sellers are asking, which runs consistently higher than what coins actually fetch, and they convert better. Sold listings tell you what people paid.

What money cannot move

Nobody buys a position here. No dealer, mint, grading service, auction house or bullion firm pays for a mention, a placement or a ranking, and there is no mechanism by which one could. A commission paid on a purchase somebody chooses to make after following a labelled link is a different thing from a payment for coverage, and this site takes the first and not the second.

More usefully: the figures are structurally unbuyable. A melt value here is the Royal Canadian Mint’s published weight, multiplied by its published fineness, multiplied by a live market price, divided by a defined constant. Every one of those four inputs comes from outside this site. There is nowhere in that chain for a commercial arrangement to insert itself, which is a better guarantee than any promise about our integrity.

What commercial interest could in principle influence is emphasis: which coins get written about, how prominent a link is. The mitigation is that page structure here is generated from the dataset rather than chosen. A page exists because the Mint publishes a row for it. Every denomination-year gets the same treatment whether the coin is desirable or dull.

Not advice

About the prices

Silver and gold spot prices come from a live market feed with a second feed as a fallback. They are indicative market prices, not quotes, and they can be a few minutes old. The site applies sanity bounds and shows nothing at all rather than showing a figure that failed them.

Canadian dollar figures use the Bank of Canada’s published daily average USD/CAD rate. It is a daily rate, published once each business day, so a Canadian melt figure here is a live silver price converted at the Bank’s most recent published rate rather than at a live one. Pages that show a converted figure state the rate and its date.

Use of the Bank of Canada’s data is subject to the Bank’s own terms, at bankofcanada.ca/terms. The Bank does not endorse this site.

Attribution and copyright

Coin specifications, mintage figures, reverse design notes and effigy periods on this site are reproduced from material published by the Royal Canadian Mint, with attribution and a link on every page that uses them. CoinsCanada.com is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Royal Canadian Mint or the Government of Canada.

Any error in the reproduction is ours, not the Mint’s, and we would like to hear about it. Corrections.

Nothing on this site reproduces the Charlton catalogue, the price data of any grading service, or any other proprietary valuation source. That is a deliberate and permanent position rather than a gap waiting to be filled.