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Message:: [QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 26422009, member: 104064"]That was a good score. I got mine in an old ICCS MS60 holder for $80, but that was (yikes) 21 years ago. ANACS gave it MS62 when I got my best George VI slabbed a few years ago. It took me years to discover that it's the SWL (short water lines) variety and has an awesome reverse die clash. I kick myself for not having ANACS designate the SWL but it's pretty obvious. Another MS62 SWL sold last December on HA for $780, which seems a bit crazy. I analyzed the 1946 $1 to death. There's also a SWL on both sides of the canoe, a "high 6" date position, there are two kinds of that die clash which I called "high eye" and "low eye" (position of George's eye behind the native's head), there's likely a DDR, and I think I've proven that a specimen die was also used for circulation strikes (as I've done with other years and denominations). Canadian coins of this era are not as well documented as they could be. The reverse on a lot of these show a pebbled texture below the canoe (as mine does), not sure if that was intentional. Not my "newest acquisition" by far, but I'll post it again anyway. [ATTACH=full]1685837[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]