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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;giorgio11, post: 1721756, member: 17094&quot;]<b>10c Canada 1911 &#039;Godless&#039; One-Year Type MS66 PCGS</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, this is what happens when you get old ... you wake up even before the chickens! It seems like I am one of the first ones around these parts in the morning (except for a few Westerners still reveling in the Night Before) now that Jello is sleeping later.</p><p><br /></p><p>This little dime is, I think, one of the prettiest coins in our whole inventory, and in this grade PCGS has seen 25 submissions (probably including some duplicates) with 7 finer (6 in 67, 1 in 67+). The 1911 coins of Canada were the first year of the King George V (1911-1936) design. George V ascended the throne after his father Edward VII died in 1910. The new design with portrait facing right featured the legend GEORGIVS V REX ET IND IMP (George V King and Emperor of India), omitting the DEI GRA (by the grace of God). As happened in the U.S. a few years earlier when President Teddy Roosevelt supported the removal of IN GOD WE TRUST from the Saint-Gaudens ten and twenty dollar gold -- because he felt it was sacrilegious -- there was a tremendous outcry, and the DEI GRA was restored in 1912 (and IN GOD WE TRUST was restored by Congressional action). All of the minor Canadian denominations, large cent through silver fifty cent, constitute the so-called &quot;Godless&quot; one-year type, and thus are quite popular with collectors. (Silver dollar Specimen coins dated 1911 were struck but are great rarities.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, this dime is far, far nicer than my photograph, showing a delicate pastel blend of ice-blue and jade hues that totally fails to come through on the shots. The surfaces, as expected, are essentially pristine and fully struck throughout. Haxby prices this at &quot;$980,&quot; CCN Trends at &quot;$2000,&quot; and CoinsandCanada.com at &quot;$1260.&quot; (I use the rule of thumb to &quot;double the price for each grade point higher in Mint State when prices are not listed for that grade.&quot; Just a rough estimate -- all coins are only worth what someone will pay for them, monetarily speaking if not aesthetically.) And I&#039;m really sorry the photographs aren&#039;t better ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Enjoy! </p><p><br /></p><p>Best Regards, :hail:</p><p><br /></p><p>George</p><p style="text-align: center"><b>10c Canada 1911 &#039;Godless&#039; One-Year Type MS66 PCGS </b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH]266981.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]266982.vB[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH]266983.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]266984.vB[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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