Looking at this site seems like prefixes stopped at AUN for Thissen Crow was any prefixes used after AUN

Agree stuck in collar and pried out

A branch of Sherwin Williams was testing a coating for the BOC, there was about 19 or 20 notes used

The RCM owns the copyrights of the Queen as like any business you have to prove an infringement then the RCMP will act and the rest of the full force of the Canadian government agencies will act like the CBSA and most important Foreign Service who can demand action with the source country. Collector...

During this time period the RCM has admitted to using a rinse that caused some of their NCLT coins to turn a goldish colour, there was a story and confirmation by RCM spokesperson in Canadian Coin News a little while ago.

Take a sharpie make a small dot directly above the Queen"s head on the plastic, flip over and you can measure the % of rotation, looks like maybe 45 degrees

So you have a note that the security strip is on the left side but upside down ? or the strip is on the reverse

Are there any more info you can share on this coin, it was really well kept for all these years

Looks undergraded, sure is nice congrats !

A pic would be nice, most likely a charter bank

A simple weight would confirm if it"s a dryer coin or something else, looks thicker and same diameter maybe shift change and new pressman didn"t change collar. Most dryer coins look funky

You need a weight, if no scale head to a Canada Post and ask nicely looks like struck on foreign planchet

Chuck it on ebay or one of the main Canadian auctions Bell Coin Expo or TCNC main auctions not the regular monthly ones. I think you will be surprse what this bundle get

On the RCM website the 2012 specimen penny is made of plated steel planchet, these two coins seems to confirm some copper version were struck for these specimen set.. An quick XRF would confirm for sure, the soft flips should be no problem for an XRF test , not sure if ICCS is using an XRF now.

few years ago, the 2005 P non mag cent first 2 examples sold at auction for around 20 K then a whole wack of this coin came onto the market place, now settle to around 2000.00. These are just a wrong planchet strike, like this 2012 variety first to market will get best price and as more is looked fo...