Collecting Old Upper Canada Coins

Ok lately i've gotten the urge to get back into coin collecting, I used to be really into it when I was younger and now I want to get back in...

I think I want to start again by collecting old Upper Canada Bank Tokens, I already have one in my possesion (see my other thread), I pulled out my old book of Canadian Coins, and alot of them are avalible to buy on ebay fairly cheap. I'm not trying to do gold digging or make money off this, I wan't to keep the coins I buy.

So anyway I bought a coin off ebay which I thought was in good condition and looked as if it had not be cleaned or abused. it's a 1854 Bank of Upper Canada Half Penny. So anyway just thought I would say this, and my goal is to aquire a bunch of the Upper Canada bank Tokens...

I'll post the coin when I recieve it, and you guys can tell me how I did :smile

 

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You may have a little more trouble finding a '54 penny - only 1,864 minted.

Are you going to try for a full date set, or just a 5-coin type set?

 

I have one,but it's a 1857.Here's a pic of it. B12

 

The 1857's of both denominations are underrated.The 1852's exist in both coin & medal alignments.The medal alignment is the Royal Mint,London issue,whereas,the coin alignment is the Heaton's Mint Birmingham.Another piece to watch for is the 1850 Penny,which has a dot between the
tips of the cornucopiae.This is a scarce piece.

Aidan.

 

Is there someway for my pics to show? B12

 

use www.imageshack.us to upload the pics to, I would love to see them... but yea I should be getting the coin by the end of the week. I'm also wondering what you guys use as a reference to see how many of a certain coin was produced... thanks

 

The Krause catalogs are the most generally used source of that information for world coins, although many of us use specialty catalogs/guides for certain areas. For example, the mintage entries in the Japanese Numismatic Dealers Association catalogs are sometimes more precise than the ones in Krause, and every time I have checked on a discrepancy, the JNDA number matched the information on the Japan Mint Bureau site.

If you're into US stuff, the Red Book is another handy source.

 

Besides imageshack and the many other on-line photo storage sites, you can use the Gallery here at Coin Talk. To post a picture from any website, including the Gallery, just put after it, with no spaces, and the picture will show up. One advantage of that system over using the attachment function when Peter gets it running again, is that the file size may not be as limited.

 

Allright! The pics are on now. B12

 

Now only if I could them a little bigger. B12

 

I can't them any bigger and if you even click on them there's an error and it can't show them any bigger.Well Peter, I hope you get these problems fixed. Good luck. B12

 

I too have a penchant for Canadian Large Cents. They are easy to collect and sometime you can find good ones at antique shops.

Bone

 

I have the 1/2 penny of Montreal , year: 1844 and

1/2 penny of Upper Canada , year: 1857. I saw the 1 penny token.

 

Where did you guys come accross yours, ebay? local coin shop?

 

Here's one.

 

I purchased some on the Bay of E today. I like the look of them

Bone

 

The coins from Upper Canada are affectionately known as St. George pieces,as their design is based upon Benedetto Pistrucci's Sovereign & Crown design.The mark 'R.K. & Co.' is not a mintmark.This is the mark of Rowe,Kentish,& Co., the agent through whom the coin orders were placed.They are a lovely series of coins.The most underrated date is the 1857 of both denominations.

Aidan.

 

Last night I snagged an 1854 and a 1857 1/2 Cent. Not sure why all the dust/bits of cardboard are on the pics.

Bone

 

Very nice, I can't wait to get mine!!!