Had a customer in my store yesterday who gave me this at the register thinking it was a dollar coin. Guy bought a beer with it lol! Sometimes I love my job, I see all sorts of different oddities people will use as change. First year, made in England. I don’t even live in Canada myself!
I can't help but wonder if this is stolen property. Anyone who collects coins (any coin) knows not to spend this. Great find!
Sitting in at the bar in a tavern in a little town in Nebraska. Close to the RR station. Waiting for the train. A guy next to me was buying his beers with proof coins. There was a police station a short distance away. Plus, there was a coin shop near (I had been in there earlier). Back then a proof set was $2.10. The guy was getting 91 cents out of a set. I knew if he were a collector he could get at least a coupe of bucks each at the coin shop. I stopped at the police station on my way to the train station. I have know idea what became of it.
I just wonder where a non-collector comes by a piece like this. Did he get it in his change? It looks pretty nice! ...not banged up at all.
They had to be stolen or he could get twice as much beer for his money. Beer was like 25 cents a glass then.
It’s got a dent in it, and is and is a little bent, though you can’t see that in the photo. it’s amazing what circulates as people don’t look at their change.