Toonie Error

Hi Everyone,

I live on the dark side in the ancient coin forum.

I volunteer at a charity shop and we got this interesting toonie in today. It's one of the new ones they've released to celebrate Canada's 150. As you can see, the middle part is coming out a little bit. It seems to be intact except for this one spot.

I was wondering if anyone had any comments. Is it worth anything other than $2?



Thanks for all your help!

Erin

 

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I doubt it, these can be removed.

 

I could never remove any that I had, Frank. Any idea how to do it? I tried freezing it and banging it with a hammer and the flat head of a nail...

 

no clue, I just remember reading about it years ago

 

Like a incased cent Frank? The edge tooled to keep the center in place?

 

A large punch will pop these out.

 

How?

 

...and an arbor press, the right support, and some leather padding won't leave marks either.

 

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I drilled a hole in a piece of pine (soft) set the coin over the hole and used a large flat ended steel punch and hammer. It popped but of course the coin was ruined. Not recommended but I just wanted to test the coin.

 

Thanks for the help!

Erin

 

Yep, now why didn't I think of that before I ruined the entire coin ( I have an arbor press).