Fair enough, but are you referring to the clad coinage of the US coins?? I have never seen, or heard, of anything similar with the pure nickel or...
That monster at Stacks last year must have been something to see in hand...
I just wanted to extend my thanks to all of those who contacted me, and helped me find background information....
Thanks for the link to that article.
Would you mind taking an oblique photo beside a normal (by weight) copper wheat cent, so we can see the edges? It would be nice to see the...
For those of you who collect and love Canadian coins, a bit of news today: A fellow Nova Scotian, Mount Allison alumni, world class artist, and...
I love the Mr. T banknote!!! "Pity the Fool!!"
Thanks for this. A 40% die shift between strikes is quite drastic, and impressive! I can only imagine what sound the poor coin press would be...
I suspect the press operator had some hand in the striking of this error. Also, our mints are now focused on quantity of coins struck, not quality...
I have been sitting on this one for a while, until my paper was published in Errorscope. Now that the journal has hit the press, I thought I would...
How would the dies go that far out of alignment, in sequential strikes?? Or are we looking at a triple struck coin, with dies that were already...
I think I have a similar error in a Canadian 1-cent, but the second strike out of collar is a bit more 'out there' or offset. I see similar...
Another large medal from the Royal Canadian Mint, issued in 1986. [ATTACH][ATTACH]
Royal Canadian Mint Medal - Silver medal issued by the Royal Canadian Mint in 1987 to celebrate one billion in sales. The recipient was E.D. Hupe....
Wow.... I like those. I have a collection of exonumia, featuring the Canada flag, so of course, I just ordered a set of these medals!!
Mike, you can 'subscribe' to this thread... click on <Watch Thread> link in the upper right of the top of this page, a pop-up window comes up and...
"Research is what I am doing, when I don't know what I am doing" - Wernher von Braun
This type of coin is uncommon in Canadian coins, and if you exclude the handful of 1-cent coins struck in this fashion in 1969 (back door jobs),...
Beautiful error... gorgeous lustre on that piece as well.
Hi Jim, I am considering writing an article for Errorscope on this cool pair of Canadian 11-cent coins.... have you received the July/August issue...
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