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- Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:30 am
- Forum: Canadian Coins
- Topic: Starter coins?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 173
Re: Starter coins?
Try Vicky large cents for a life-long pastime.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:42 am
- Forum: 1 cent
- Topic: high 9 and low 9 ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 341
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:40 am
- Forum: 1 cent
- Topic: high 9 and low 9 ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 341
Re: high 9 and low 9 ?
Yep, looks like it
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: 1 cent
- Topic: A little help please
- Replies: 6
- Views: 396
Re: A little help please
Is there a thin coating on it? It looks like some of the lettering is fainter than the rest. DFidn't leave the mint that way.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:50 am
- Forum: 1 cent
- Topic: 1884 Cent with ?? in Loop of 2nd "8"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1024
Re: 1884 Cent with ?? in Loop of 2nd "8"
It just looks to me like the Vicky grunge that someone didn't get all out when they tried to clean it. Is it hard like metal or like the remaining grit/grunge around it? Whatever it is, it's in the lower loop of the first one as well and light colored.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: 1979 canadian coin
- Replies: 3
- Views: 337
Re: 1979 canadian coin
It's not a "double or doubled die". It's the result of die deterioration doubling from the die wearing out. It's not a variety or an error and adds no value to the coin.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: 2 dollars
- Topic: Info on this coin please
- Replies: 3
- Views: 710
Re: Info on this coin please
Just someone's magic marker or pen. Spend it
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: 25 cents
- Topic: Here is an odd 1937
- Replies: 6
- Views: 841
Re: Here is an odd 1937
It looks like the same type of depression is evident from the anter rack on the left and the denticles. I think that the coin had been struck with a non-sharp ridged element, probably with a hammer on top of leather, with the Obverse also shielded by leather, so nothing appears there. PMD
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: 10 cents
- Topic: 1960 10 cents debris error
- Replies: 4
- Views: 648
Re: 1960 10 cents debris error
Is the black circle something that you did with a pen? I don't understand or see where the minted "zero" came from or it the light colored oval inside the black?
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:16 am
- Forum: Errors and Varieties
- Topic: Counterfeit toonies and others Mike Marshal
- Replies: 0
- Views: 274
Counterfeit toonies and others Mike Marshal
I have pulled this from another site and you all should listen to a friend of mine on an over 1 hour podcast on Canadian Counterfeit coins, starting with the miliions and millions of toonies. Mike had been a friend of mine for 25 years and he is famous with his counterfeiting education with the RCMP...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: 2 dollars
- Topic: 2002 $2 dot in H ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 348
Re: 2002 $2 dot in H ?
Die chip ... not part of the mint procedure
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:47 pm
- Forum: 1 cent
- Topic: 2007 1 cent - very nice struck through Rim Fin
- Replies: 2
- Views: 479
Re: 2007 1 cent - very nice struck through Rim Fin
Looks like a strike-thru to me but don't know what it was caught on the die maybe a rim fin. The mark runs over some of the design, leaving a recessed mark on the coin, but it is under some of the design (the leaf stem) so it doesn't show into the design. Then the stem tip broke whatever it was, so ...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:49 pm
- Forum: 25 cents
- Topic: 1988 struck on foreign planchet?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 401
Re: 1988 struck on foreign planchet?
It looks like a "dryer coin" and the weight is less because one side almost worn away and just .13 g from fully struck, probably still within original tollerance, but the wear itself reduces the weight.
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: Canadian Coins
- Topic: New to data base?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 568
Re: New to data base?
It was a special commem honoring the RCMP. I think only in silver and maybe not in circulation; just a commem to buy from the RCM. Your cxoin looks like it no longer an untouched spec or proof or P/L. Not worth grading https://www.coinsandcanada.com/coins-auctions-prices.php?denomination=7&date=1973...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 1:09 pm
- Forum: 1 cent
- Topic: 1891 Oddities
- Replies: 1
- Views: 350
Re: 1891 Oddities
Yes, they used the dies until they were ready to break in pieces. If you think about how thin the little cogs of metal would be on the master used to strike and make the dies, you can see how many serifs broke off. Rather than make new dies they, would handpunch letters and numbers into the dies to ...