Set report · Canada · 5 Cents
King George VI 5 Cents: Who Owns What
How often each King George VI 5 Cents coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 428 collectors of this set have one. Coins are graded from Common to Extremely scarce against the set's most-owned coin — a measure of collecting frequency, not of how many survive.
Hardest to find in real collections
The five least-owned coins of the set — ownership counts are collector-reported.
…and the ones everybody has
Full set: ownership & rarity, coin by coin
Values by grade for each of these live on the King George VI 5 Cents catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-CANone | 4,593,263 | 114 | 26.6% | Uncommon |
| 1937-CANone (Specimen) | — | 2 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1937-CANone (Specimen Variety) | — | 1 | 0.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1938-CANone | 3,898,974 | 109 | 25.5% | Uncommon |
| 1938-CANone (Specimen) | — | 1 | 0.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1939-CANone | 5,661,123 | 123 | 28.7% | Common |
| 1940-CANone | 13,820,197 | 161 | 37.6% | Common |
| 1941-CANone | 8,681,785 | 141 | 32.9% | Common |
| 1942-CANone | 10,243,778 | 123 | 28.7% | Common |
| 1942-CANone Tombac | — | 83 | 19.4% | Uncommon |
| 1942-CANone (Specimen) | — | 2 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1942-CANone Tombac (Specimen) | — | 4 | 0.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1943-CANone Tombac | — | 131 | 30.6% | Common |
| 1943-CANone Tombac (Specimen) | — | 1 | 0.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1944-CANone | — | 127 | 29.7% | Common |
| 1944-CANone No Chrome | — | 110 | 25.7% | Uncommon |
| 1944-CANone (Specimen) | — | 1 | 0.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1944-CANone (Variety) | — | 30 | 7% | Very scarce |
| 1944-CANone Tombac (Variety) | — | 4 | 0.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1945-CANone | — | 151 | 35.3% | Common |
| 1945-CANone No Chrome | 18,893,216 | 3 | 0.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1945-CANone (Specimen) | — | 2 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1945-CANone (Variety) | — | 33 | 7.7% | Very scarce |
| 1946-CANone | 6,952,684 | 121 | 28.3% | Uncommon |
| 1947-CANone | 9,595,124 | 144 | 33.6% | Common |
| 1947-CANone Maple Leaf | — | 91 | 21.3% | Uncommon |
| 1947-CANone (Specimen) | — | 2 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1947-CANone (Specimen Variety) | — | 2 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1947-CANone (Variety) | — | 15 | 3.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1948-CANone | 1,810,789 | 75 | 17.5% | Scarce |
| 1948-CANone (Specimen) | — | 1 | 0.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1949-CANone | 13,736,276 | 149 | 34.8% | Common |
| 1949-CANone (Specimen) | — | 1 | 0.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1950-CANone | 11,950,520 | 145 | 33.9% | Common |
| 1950-CANone (Specimen) | — | 3 | 0.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1951-CANone | — | 134 | 31.3% | Common |
| 1951-CANone (Specimen) | — | 2 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1951-CANone (Variety) | — | 23 | 5.4% | Very scarce |
| 1952-CANone | 10,891,148 | 139 | 32.5% | Common |
| 1952-CANone (Specimen) | — | 2 | 0.5% | Extremely scarce |
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Based on the share of this set's collectors who own each coin — how often it turns up in a collection, not how many survive. Not the Sheldon rarity scale.
About these numbers
Ownership counts come from the same live per-coin counters shown across the LuckyCoin catalog; set-level collector counts come from the annual full-collection scan behind The State of Coin Collecting 2026. Counts are collector-reported and aggregate-only. Scarcity tiers come from 100 × (1 − owners ÷ owners of the set's most-owned coin): Common under 25, Uncommon 25–49, Scarce 50–74, Very scarce 75–89, Extremely scarce 90+. This reflects how often a coin is collected, not its surviving population — it is not the Sheldon rarity scale. CC BY 4.0 with attribution.