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Message:: [QUOTE="Clinker, post: 157896, member: 6229"]Reigning king of England (Edward VIII), in December 1936, abdicated the throne. There are two versions as to why he did this. One is he did this because of his love for his brother George so George could be king. The other states he abdicated so he could marry a commoner, Mrs. Wallace Simpson, an American divorcee. Whatever the reason, this caused quite a problem at the Royal Mint in London. The mint had just about completed the making of the tools for the obverses of the 1937 Canadian coinage. Because of the abdication by Edward, all the tools had to be destroyed and new obverse tools had to be made with George VI's portrait on them.Because this would take some time, delaying the arrival of the 1937 die tools to Canada, some emergency measures would have to be taken by the Royal Canadian Mint to fill the demand by banks for one-cent, ten-cent and twenty-five cent coins. It was decided to strike more 1936 coins of those three denominations and to place a dot below the date of each to denote these coins were struck in 1937, not 1936. The dot on the 1936 cent was placed below the date between the 9 and 3 but finding one in any condition is almost impossible. At this time only 3 are known and all are in mint state quality. In 2003 one sold at the Heritage Belzberg Sale for the tidy sum of 230,000.00 U.S.A. dollars. It is believed the rest of the official mintage of 700,000 coins were melted. Once-in-a-while a circulated specimen shows up, but is proved to not be genuine. The dot on the ten-cent coin is below the ribbon on the reverse and only five examples of these are known to exist out of a mintage of 191, 237. In 2003 one sold at the Belzberg Sale for 74,750.00 U.S.A. dollars. The dot on the twenty-five cent coin is, also, below the wreath. Unlike the one-cent and ten-cent coins these can be found in all states of preservation from VG-8 through MS-63. There is no record of thetwenty-five cents mintage figures at this time. Hope you enjoyed this bit of trivia, Clinker[/QUOTE]

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