The op's pic is a little blurry. I've adjusted the contrast on my screen. I don't see any of the wheat stalk in the cud which I believe should be...
You may be right.... I think it's time for a new LCD screen.:o
The actual date is about 1853 in the Gregorian calendar.
This is the information in the Charlton Coin Guide (2009): "The usual means of issuing coins was through the Bank Of Canada, but for this special...
You pretty well got it. Except that I would add doubled dies (different from machine/mechanical doubling) to the higher dollar ones and some of...
At the last coin show I was at, junk silver was being sold by all the dealers at 16.5X face. (Canadian)
Nice find!
You may want to search this site (check each of the states at the bottom of the page. If you can't find it there, email them with the information...
Some still are but greased-filled dies are fairly common and not generally considered an error. Some people collect them because they are...
Keep us abreast of the outcome (of the sale).
Thanks. I remember this being in the news a lot during the sixties when hippies would take over abandoned buildings and farm land for communes and...
Looks like a grease filled die. Value 25 cents or whatever you can get for it.
Is that also referred to as "squatter's rights"?
Too difficult to tell from the pics. Read this thread for tips: http://www.cointalk.com/t114269/
Very hard to tell from the pics. My guess based on the pictures is PMD, however it does look like there might be a small clip in the last pic.
It's called a retained cud. Nice find! and Welcome to Coin Talk!
Canadian bills have a tactile feature on it's notes. It isn't braille but a series of dots that represent different denominations to assist the...
You're right, they are something very special, worth hundreds of dollars:...
If you post in the forum section you'll get far more responses. I've been here 2 years and I've looked at the blogs maybe twice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_pounds_%28British_coin%29 http://www.royalmint.com/Corporate/facts/coins/TwoPoundCoin.aspx...
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