I got this proof 1967 commemorative Canadian dollar last night at my coin club for $10. I really like it, but my pics don't do it justice. It is 80% silver and commemorates Canada's 100th birthday. I think it lists for about $13 - $15 bucks and has .6 oz of silver (if I read my book correctly). The dust is on the outside of the coin flip, the coin is pristine. Just thought I'd share....
I have always had an affinity for these coins, ever since I read about the "Diving Goose" variety in the first coin magazine I ever bought, back in 1968.
I carry one in my pocket always as do all of my closest friends. It is the only foreign coin that I have any attachment to at all.
ever hear of a challenge coin? It's a military tradition and my group of friends all have a 1967 Canadian Dollar as ours. If you wonder why, it's because we refer to ourselves as a flock of geese. Geese are very social birds and watch out for each other. There's a poem called "The Sense of The Goose" and it explains things very well. Google it, I think you'll enjoy it.
The melt value on this is about $10.30 USD, so you got a great deal and a very nice coin! This coin is a specimen or prooflike strike, though, and not a proof.
#1 Nice coin. I don't have one but the Canadian dollars (type set) has been on my radar for a while. On that subject, was this centennial coin actually minted for circulation? I’d like to put together a basic type set of Canadian dollars. I’d limit it to coins that are struck for circulation but some of the commemoratives should probably be included. Which ones do you CT folk think should be included in the type set? #2 Watch those staples in the holder. They could scratch an adjacent coin.
It was advertised as a proof, and my World Coin book lists a proof for this issue.......are you sure it is not?
There weren't any true proofs minted that I can remember, but there were prooflike sets, which is probably what they meant by 'proof'. I believe a few proofs were coined as patterns, but that is certainly not the case here. Your coin has the look, semi-reflective fields and contact marks of a prooflike coin. It's a nice one all the same.
to shed some light on the coin Bob, your coin is indeed a proof. There was a cello wrapped proof-like set sold as the RCM usually did back in the day. But for the centennial year of 1967 they also made a proof set that came in a black leather-like box. When packaged for Canadians it included a proof coin of each denomination including a $20 gold piece. Since the private ownership of gold coins was at the time outlawed in the US, if you ordered a Proof Set to a US address, it came minus the $20 gold. It was, of course, cheaper.
That is not correct. First of all, the sets in the cases were specimen sets and not proof sets. Second of all, there were two types of cases, one was red and one black. The black one had the $20 gold and the red one has a silver medal instead. The coin bobbeth posted is by no stretch of the imagination a proof. I challenge anyone to have a Canadian coin expert say different.
