Rare is a word I don't use often, except when I am ordering a steak. This is a Canadian nickel dollar struck on a 7.1 gram nickel 50-cent planchet. This is one very tough error to find. I only know of one other (dated 1976). I suspect more must exist, but they are well squirrelled away... I was especially pleased when I bought this example. While considerably thinner than a nickel dollar, it is well struck. The grade is pretty darned good, and it will be heading to PCGS shortly.
That is a cool find! Since it is classified as an error (rather than a variety) there is no way of knowing how many of other dates exist since the major grading services don't separate errors from normal coins in their census figures. Chris
Here is another one, just picked it up at the Moore Legacy auction. A 1980 nickel dollar struck on a Canadian (nickel) 25-cent planchet. First (and only) one I have ever seen.
Wow!! => that's another total winner, SPPO ... I'm very jealous of that lil' gem!! Congrats!! => cheers, brother
Yah you're right, that coins sucks ... ummm, hey Geo-boy, I'll certainly take that dog off of your hands
Let me take some time to think about that... No. By the way, I decided to create an album of some of my nickel dollar errors here on Coin Talk, at: https://www.cointalk.com/gallery/albums/canadian-nickel-dollar-errors.66/ Well, that was short-lived... all the galleries are now off-line...