A 1960s View of Canadian Notes

Editor’s Note: For nearly 70 years, the feature-rich pages of Coins magazine, Numismatic News’ venerable sister publication, have tracked the history, fun and the growth of this great hobby, while also attracting new collectors to pursue what was once deemed the “hobby of kings.” Dusting off these time-aged issues, from the early 1960s and beyond, each installment of “Past Times with Coins,” written by its former longtime editor, explores what nuggets of interest they contain.

Early issues of magazine had plenty of articles focusing not only on U.S. coins and paper money, but also foreign currency, with a strong emphasis on our neighboring countries, Canada and Mexico. The June 1963 issue of , for instance, looked at Mexican coins in an article by John Grant (“Where Do We Go From