ok so i go to friends brother inlaws today and his wife worked at a suppermarket years ago on the way home he had her get a rol of dimes, so today he showed me a canadian dime, 1978 from what i can remebr cant see the date now cause the pic i took with my phone came out crappy. he has a penny from cnaada the same size as a dime, it has the marking of a canadian cent, part of one of the words seems to be missing on a slant as it works to the out side of the coin. so its a canadian penny with dime size and the dime silver look but the out side of the coin is smooth like a penny not with denticles around the rim on most time.. he noticed the error and put it in a coin folder right away ans there it has been since the new roll of coins was opened. ill at tch a pic but its really hard to see. but believe me its in mint condition out of a fresh circulation roll.see attached pic. thoughts please
same sorry about the horrible pics , but believe me the coins condition is like a new shiny dime and is in mint shape.. bloody cheap phone cameras,, yuk
Does everyone from St. Johns talk like you type? Just kidding! I really can't tell anything from those photos. Chris
Interesting error, if that is what it is. Coins struck on the wrong planchet are not unknown, but are less common now. This is not a market I know well (or at all, actually), but George Manz is a reliable Canadian dealer and he wants $250 for his. See here.
thanks, but the funny thing is its smaller then a penny, maybe a little bigger or the same size as a dime. didnt have time to have a super look. but it has a penny rim, not just a penny image on a dime surface , as it has the outside smooth rim as a penny do. litle like a bit of both. and one of the words on it seems to slowly work its lettering smaller off the coin. from what i can remeber.. ps is there anyone on here that knows alot about bills of exchange, the same guy had one passed down through his family since 1815 in excellent shape and was kept in plastic for years, any way thats another topic but i have pics of it, it is full of signatures on the reverse.. i should post the pics here cause it blew my mind the conditiuon it was in..
Probably mercury dipped. I have a '42 Canadian thats the color of a BU '43 steel wheatie. From what little I can tell with that picture mercury dipped/plated is what I'm guessing.
ok think of this, picture in your head a. new 2010 canada dime fresh out of a roll.but in this case its a 1978, thats the color this looks like. its a penny ,dime sized with the out side rim of a penny, and if it was dipped then they did it at the mint, and put the out side rim of a penny on a dime, it has the markings of a penny on both sides. this wasnt a coin that was kicking around a while .it was taken from a fresh roll dropped off by a brinks truck to a store then opened for circulation..its not just a color issue but it has characteristics of a penny and a dime. sorry but from your last post and my earlier horrible explanation i thought you just thought it was a dipped color issue.. a canadian dime has little grooves around the out side edge this is smooth like a penny.
I think it's what Mmarotta stated above, a wrong planchet error. A wrong planchet error means that a dime blank coin(planchet) got mixed in with the cent planchets and was struck as a cent. Thats why it's the size of a dime but has the markings of a cent and no reeded edge. Its a nice find and as far as the value I couldn't hazard a guess.
thanks guys i didnt mean any harm when i describing over again what the coin is like.. im thinking is this a one of a kind or few were made untill they realized the mistake..hum . how ever is there anyone around who would know of this or is there a book on errors for certain yrs, on canadian coins, i have to say its a pretty cool coin, and actually looks silver. the pics i took are horrible as i said they were with a cell phone, but what catagory does a one of a kind coin all into? another thing how many acual 1936 dot canada pennies were minted? and was it intentional.. thanks gotta say i love the response from fellow collectors.. great site , great people. thoughts please
It sounds like an interesting find. But to get any kind of accurate response, you'll have to provide better pics. Right now everyone is just guessing about a greyish disc. If you have a scanner, try using that but increase your resolution so you can get a nice clear, large pic. The Canadian Mint provides coins for a lot of countries and it is possible that this was struck on another country's planchet. If that was the case, depending on condition, it may be worth up to a couple of hundred dollars. (you're not touching the face of it with your bare fingers are you?)
god no didnt touch it with hands when it was found it was right out of a roll years ago and put in a coin cover. ill go take a batter pic with a digital camera, as when i went to take the pic the camera battery wore out and i had to use my cell phone so ill get a good pic so you cann all see a good pic of it. thanks and stay tuned
Can't tell anything from the current pictures, but the description does sound like it is a cent struck on a ten cent planchet. Two important pieces of information are missing. What does it weigh? And is it stongly magnetic. (The 1978 Canadian ten cent pieces were made of pure nickel which is strongly magnetic.)
strange penny dime cross ill check on the magnetic sidce of things and get more pics,, and post them here thanks
I think it is a regular struck penny thats has been ground down and mercury dipped. Better pictures could change my opinion.
ok i think the horrible pic certainly does not get a proper answer, ill have to take some new high quality pics of it, thanks
heres the other pics i took yeaterday, you should beable to see the outside rim of a penny..when you enlarge the pics it nothing but a blurr, but i will get better pics. dime size with penny rim and penny markings..
there is a thread on this site about photographing coins. you should read it. but i will tell you the most important parts quickly. dont use a flash, put another light source somewhere around it. put your digital camera on macro setting, this will take a much clearer shot close up. try to stabilize the camera so you dont get any shake at all (put it on a book and have the coin displayed on its edge or something). otherwise you get pics like the ones you have. please dont take my comment the wrong way. i am trying to help, so that with clear shots, others can help you identify what you have.
maggie, Without good, sharp, in-focus photos we may not be able to help you. Take a look at the two photos of the moon below. One is blurry and out of focus (like the photos of your coin) and the other is crisp and sharply focused. Notice how nothing is discernable in the blurry photo and nearly everything is discernable in the sharp photo.
