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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1916837, member: 19463&quot;]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_Upper_Canada" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_Upper_Canada" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_Upper_Canada</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The above Wikipedia article includes the statement that the 1857 issue of the Bank of Upper Canada Bank Tokens is hard to find.&nbsp; Currently there over 100 offered on eBay.&nbsp; The article says that the Canadian government bought most of them as scrap bailing out the manufacturer who would have suffered when Canada switched to decimal coinage and melted most of them.&nbsp; This is not consistent with 100 eBay offerings.&nbsp; Who can tell me what I&#039;m missing here?&nbsp; Are there restrikes?&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]328907[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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