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<p>[QUOTE="CoinKeeper, post: 603184, member: 16707"]During Victoria Day weekend my dad and I were going in a camping, fishing, hunting trip in northern Quebec. There were all sorts of little towns, and as we got into one...BAM...there stood a massive coin, a massive 1908 gold sovereign. Except it wasn't gold, just gold looking metal, darn <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The reason for the coin is because the town, Virginiatown, Ontario, celebrated the 100th anniversary of a gold mine in the area. In 2008, it erected the sovereign in celebration. A very cool celebratory monument in my opinion, what do you think?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's the bad boy...</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse:</p><p><img src="http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb6/KeeperOfFishyPeace/quebec09031.jpg?t=1243819361" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse:</p><p><img src="http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb6/KeeperOfFishyPeace/quebec09033.jpg?t=1243819385" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>OMG! Doubling! Super rare!:</p><p><img src="http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb6/KeeperOfFishyPeace/quebec09034.jpg?t=1243819409" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And here's my sovereign...just got it today...</p><p><img src="http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb6/KeeperOfFishyPeace/sovereign-1.jpg?t=1243819462" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I hope you guys and gals enjoyed that. I sure did, and was quite surprised too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CoinKeeper, post: 603184, member: 16707"]During Victoria Day weekend my dad and I were going in a camping, fishing, hunting trip in northern Quebec. There were all sorts of little towns, and as we got into one...BAM...there stood a massive coin, a massive 1908 gold sovereign. Except it wasn't gold, just gold looking metal, darn :p The reason for the coin is because the town, Virginiatown, Ontario, celebrated the 100th anniversary of a gold mine in the area. In 2008, it erected the sovereign in celebration. A very cool celebratory monument in my opinion, what do you think? Here's the bad boy... Reverse: [IMG]http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb6/KeeperOfFishyPeace/quebec09031.jpg?t=1243819361[/IMG] Obverse: [IMG]http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb6/KeeperOfFishyPeace/quebec09033.jpg?t=1243819385[/IMG] OMG! Doubling! Super rare!: [IMG]http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb6/KeeperOfFishyPeace/quebec09034.jpg?t=1243819409[/IMG] And here's my sovereign...just got it today... [IMG]http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb6/KeeperOfFishyPeace/sovereign-1.jpg?t=1243819462[/IMG] I hope you guys and gals enjoyed that. I sure did, and was quite surprised too.[/QUOTE]
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