I have acquaintance/friend who after I mentioned Wheatback pennys to him he told me he had a 3 gallon water jug thats about 2/3 full of pennies. Suppose to be 20+ years of saving them. The other day he gave me 7 wheatbacks, 1941 was the best and the rest were higher 40's and 50's and one was a Canadian 1867-1967. He told me he found those 8 coins with only searching 3 dixie cups worth of his stash. I have been told I can look at these coins and keep whatever pennys I like. I need to wait till though because of the covid issue and he has 3 very young children. Biggest reason for this post is I because I never knew Canadian coins or at least the pennys have the obverse and reverse facing the same way. This one in the pic's is a sharp crisp coin.
US Coins are oriented such as they are flipped opposite to each other. Most Foreign coins use Medallic Orientation. That's a neat find searching through your friends Pennies Fixed the spelling @lordmarcovan Thanks
@paddyman98 beat me to it. US coins use what is called coin orientation, while Canadian and other World coins often use what is called medallic orientation. With two L's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_orientation .
So its called Medallic orientation When I flipped the coin to take the reverse pic I was all confused Learned something today.. It might not be today or tomorrow or even next week but I will get to look at the penny's in his water jug. He's not the type of person to string you along as long as I have known him.
"Coin Turn" and "Medal Turn" are easier to remember and less likely to be misspelled. US Mint medals are produced in medal turn, and they sometimes make the mistake of striking them in coin turn. I have a set of the US Presidents from the Mint, and all of them are in medal turn except for two.
Sorry = I just purchased a lot of 209 Canadian Pennies. Looking forward to receiving them in the mail. Stay Safe.
Good luck with finding some key dates! I find this Canadian penny really pretty especially the reverse Stay safe also!
I have a couple of Centennial Canadian Cents. They are very nice looking coins that I consider keepers. Good luck searching your friends cache.
I just refer to it as flipping on the horizontal or vertical axis. Nice to know there's an official term. THX
Oh. I want them too. Kidding. Is that something we should look for or is that a major @paddyman98 mistake
I live in Buffalo NY. I have common and a few canadian steel coins. If you lack some regulars Let me know. For free. Will try to help ya
Got a 1962 Canadian penny today in change! My birth year too but i'm not so much into birth coins. Of course when I looked it up to see if it has any value I saw there's a Harp error that year. Nope it's not a error but still again I think these Canadian pennys have a pretty reverse..
