You never can tell what will come your way. I was at Micky D's getting lunch and I received this dime in change. I know the pictures are not very good but I'm still looking for some better "free" editor software that's user friendly. Any who, this dime caught my eye first with its intensive reflectivity, just like is was a proof. Then upon further inspection I noticed no copper clading on the edge. Last is the double date. What is with that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks to all that respond. Allen
I save Canadian coins too. They aren't really worth anything, but it's a cheap bad habbit and I'm thinking of buying a coin folder to keep me out of trouble. Anyway, Canadian dimes are not clad and I don't believe it's worth anything. Sorry!
Hi allen. I found this answer in google there were 152.485 million of these nickel plated steel 25c coins minted that one year to celebrate the golden jubilee of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. It may be worth up to maybe a dollar. http://en.allexperts.com/q/Coin-Collecting-2297/2008/1/Canadian-quarter.htm Hope this helps added info: Just saw that was for a quarter but looks like they did that for other coins for 2002.
That would explain the double date. I'm a little disappointed that the composition is nickel and not silver. I thought I might have lucked into a circulated silver proof. Oh well, still a nice find and fun research for the coin collector in me. Take care and thanks again. Allen
Heres a little history on the reverse from memory That ship is called The Bluenose that was built and launched in Lunemberg, Nova Scotia, in 1921. It apparantley won The America's Cup sailing race a number of times, and was actually used for commerical fishing at the same time. The boat was eventually sold, and from what I remember sunk in the Caribean. A replica was launched in 1963, and is still on display. It has been on our Canadian 10 cent piece since the 1930's. Here's a Wikipedia link below if anyone is interested. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluenose
It's very common to get cents, nickels, dimes, and quarters with the 1952-2002 double date, and the double date is to commemorate Elizabeth II's golden jubilee. But yours is a nice MS example.
The Bluenose never won The Americas Cup. The Americas Cup (Originally the Royal Yacht Squadron Cup) was won by the schooner America in 1852 and remained in the United States until 1983. The prize the Bluenose won and held for 17 years was the International Fishermans Trophy. (1921 - 1938)
From the somewhat abrupt delivery from the above member, I get a gut feeling that I really hit a nerve with potentially posting some misinformation. Im not going to bother researching and confirming what he says. It's much too petty to worry about it. It wasnt meant to get under your skin, and Í did have a waiver that I was replying by memory. It looks like I may have got the sinking part correct tho. Nice internet research on your part none the less.
Thanks for the info. Its nice to put a name with the sailboat, reguardless of its history. No this coin is certainly not MS. It is how ever a cool find in my book, and its already been flipped and stored for preservation. I'm a grandfather today to four biological children and a grandfather figured to a host of others. The ones that come to stay with us from time to time are excited about the coins I collect. Its great to be able to tell them stories about whats on the coins. Thanks to all who responded and many thanks to those who did research. Keep on Collecting!!! Allen
Sorry if I seemed abrupt, I didn't mean to be. It was just that what you said about the Bluenose didn't jibe with what I remembered about the Americas Cup so I did some checking and got the correct information. I posted it because it is always important to try to give out the correct information because once people latch onto bad data it can be very difficult to stop it from being spread as fact. So when I see something said that I know is wrong, I post corrections.
