Post your New Old Canadian coins

This hit the hammer at 167.00 unreal for a 800.00 coin!

 

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Personally, I've always liked the 20 cent New Brunswick mostly do to the reverse crown, the maple boughs & the obverse young Victoria portait - just a nice mix in my opinion - makes for an handsome coin. Seller's coin photos look a bit blurry (through mylar 2x2 - in my opinion looks maybe EF, not clear enough to assume higher), which may have hurt the bids a bit..... That and the number of collectors of Canadian Provincial coinage seems to be fairly small...

Regardless, agree with @Paddy54 though, nice looking coin. Think someone got a good deal on ebay!

 

I missed the Au 1861 Nova Scotia cent by a buck another nice coin this seller had. But there's more out there to fish for another day .

 

Yes, you'll definitely find another. 1861 has a pretty high mintage, as you say, more out there...
blurry photos, some possible scratches - may just be the mylar - I lean towards trying to hide something...suspect I'm too paranoid (this forum's fault) lol

 

Yes the images were bury but under that I could see two nice coins. I was really liking both.... but someone else knew that they were also very nice specimens . But again I'll wait till the next time. No worries it's not like I don't have any coins lol

 

Yes wouldn't actually surprise me if they were both still nice, I'm just a little leary of ebay. Sometimes win/sometimes lose.
Much more comfortable with online dealers I know of course.

 

This is the first of a batch of 8 LC's I've acquired. It might be the most "collectible" of the bunch, but I don't believe it the "best" of them. I've only time for the one before work; you'll have to await the others.







I think it's quite worthy of MS63, but to my mind more like RB than Red. The lines on the reverse are scratches on the slab (and their shadows).

 

that's eye candy!

 

I am confused... I am looking in my 2016 Charlton standard catalog for Canadian coins trying to find your variety for your 1859 coin ??? which is it ??? @stevex6

 

That's a fairly common variety with the first 3 digits very slightly doubled. I also think that I see a little wear in the tufts around the ear and laurel leaves. A nice looking coin, but I wouldn't give it a 63. Is that green on the reverse on the coin or the holder?

 

The "green" is more a lack of color on the coin's surface than anything else; under the loupe it seems as-struck. The white dot on the ball of the 9 looks to be either in or under the plastic, which is unfortunate. Here's a 100% crop from a companion image to the above, showing what doubling is easily visible:



This set was intended to try to illustrate the coin's in-hand appearance, which involves compromise of strict technical detail. The reverse is nicely clashed; I'll see if I can capture that.

But there are two more Vickies, two Edwards and three more Georges in line first.

 

Speaking of Her Highness....





That obverse could not have lasted much longer; look at the cracks.

This one was only cracked at CANADA, but judging from the denticles and rim crumbling, it hadn't many more strikes in it either:

 

Nice '92 Obv 4.

 

This one's tough enough that I was willing to acquire a nice AU example:

 

But wait, there's more!





Doubling seems to abound in this series. I love it.

 

Looks like a little machine/mechanical doubling. Also lots of repunched final digits in the Ed series.

 

Machine doubling, by definition evidenced by practice, cannot separate serifs. If you see split serifs, it's on the die.

 

Maybe I should have written about the 1908 DDO before I went and sold mine!! (Or maybe I can just use your photos!)

 

I would cheerfully concede right of publication should you wish. It's the least I can do in return.

I've no idea whether this particular die work is documented; heck, I haven't seen enough of these yet to even have a confident feel for grading, much less variety attribution. As you can see, under more relevant magnification the die appears a bit more....busy than first noted.





Edit: For the record, this one's already noted over at Coins & Canada.

 

Aside a small recently-detached lamination right of the date, this one hasn't much going on except a few wispy die cracks. It's just proof of my weakness for Woodies.