Get a copy of Charlton's "Canadian Colonial Tokens", which is the primer for all pre-confederation tokens. Then you can get further into it with...
Get a copy of Charlton's Canadian colonial tokens and it will have all you need to get into this area. There are other books more in depth and...
Look in all their Holder and Folder links, as well as misc and closeouts. It's hard to beat Brooklyn Gallery's prices. I've used them for...
Just after WWI, for the early Mercs, standing lib quarters and the liberty halves right out of the wooden drawer cash registers through to about...
All post-1920 Canadian coins, up to 1967, are .800 silver. That works out to .6 troy oz Ag for each face dollar. The sizes and weights of the...
You have to be able to see any tell-tale die cracks and slight letter repunching to tell which working die (and the approx population of that die...
Sorry .. sent it twice.
Do you spell paranoia with one "n" or two? It also sounds like he gets his entire "knowledge" intake from Fox News (if there is such a thing) or...
The photo and the crud make it impossible to tell you which of the 27 Obv working dies struck your coin, nor any of the reverse dies for the same...
I post very infrequently when something comes up in my specific areas and I can add to the knowledge base. I also just read a lot here on...
If you have a copy of the 2011 Charlton (65th edition), the Victoria large cent varieties are in the back ... certainly not all, but just 80 of...
For Canadian silver from 1920-1967, it was .800 Ag fineness. That makes each face dollar equal to .6 troy oz of silver, if you are looking to...
Lon Chaney's post was in jest about another "11 cent" previously "discovered". B
Please don't get your 11 cent coin anywhere near anything gold. All high school students on both sides of the border tried the "dip the penny in...
The alternate TPG for Canada is CCCS, who have 2 types of hard slabs, as well as flips if you want them. They also have a complete tracking...
I am not a US Large Cent collector (Canada Vicky Large Cents), but the comparison photos at the end of page 1 showed one thing very clear to me......
Take a look here: http://www.brooklyngallery.com/cgi-bin/commerce.exe?listcategories=action&parent=0905 . Be sure to look at each of the...
The "P" mintmark isn't really a mintmark. It stands for "plated". This is a good time to start a Canadian small cent collection. The penny is...
You will need to send photos with a little better magnification and taken directly over the coin and parallel to the surface. Pics taken at an...
I frequently refer animal/bird lovers to a friend of mine's site. It's nice to look around his "zoo", but I don't know if he's still active in...
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