1969 Canada Dollar Value

The 1969 Canada Dollar carries a current retail range of about its melt value to well into four figures across circulated and Mint State grades. The figures below break the range down grade by grade.

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Illustrative rendering. Photographs of this date are being added.

1969 Canada Dollar value by grade

1969 Canada Dollar value by grade
GradeEstimated value

Estimated retail range. Estimates are modeled from mintage rarity and metal content, not auction records. Actual sale prices vary with certification, eye appeal and market timing.

What is a 1969 Canada Dollar worth right now?

Pricing for the 1969 Canada Dollar depends on grade and current collector demand.

1969 Canada Dollar specifications

Series
Canada Coinage
Year
1969
Mint mark
None (Philadelphia)
Mintage
Not recorded
Composition
Nickel
Weight
15.564 g
Diameter
32 mm

No mint mark? Here is why

The 1969 Canada Dollar was struck at the Philadelphia Mint, which used no mint mark in this era. If you find no letter where branch-mint coins carry one (check the usual position for this series), you are holding a Philadelphia issue.

What makes the 1969 Canada Dollar valuable

For the 1969 Canada Dollar, surviving examples tell the story that mint records do not. Museum-documented specimens define the issue for collectors.

There is history in a 1969 Canada Coinage as well. Documented Canada coin types preserved in museum collections, with measured specifications for each date, denomination and mint. That backdrop keeps the series among the most actively collected in American numismatics.

1969 Canada Dollar inscriptions & design

Obverse

ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA

middle-aged crowned and draped bust of the Queen, facing right

Reverse

CANADA DOLLAR

An Indian and a voyageur, a travelling agent for a fur company, paddling a canoe by an islet on which there are two wind-swept trees; in the canoe are bundles of goods; the bundle at the right has HB, representing the Hudson's Bay Company. The vertical lines in the background represent the northern lights.

Measured 1969 Canada Dollar specimens

1 physically measured 1969 Canada Dollar example in our reference database. Real measured weights and die axes let you authenticate a coin against the 15.564 g, 32 mm minting standard.

Measured 1969 Canada Dollar specimens
SpecimenWeightDiameterDie axisReferences
1969 Canada Dollar #115.564 g32 mm-KM.Canada.76.1

Specifications compiled from documented museum specimens. See our data & methodology page.