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Hi Speedy,
I'm doing a mixed grade set from 1858-2005. Both large and small cents. I designed and made a album that will house the entire collection. I'm not collecting the varieties however.
catman 
Catman, do you collect any pre-Confederation coins, e.g. Bank of Upper Canada? |
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Morgan Fred,
I'm not familiar with the issues that you speak of. I'm interested. What books would provide me with the basic background information..?
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I don't know much about the Bank of Upper Canada tokens either--is there a web-site?
A friend of mine over the internet use to sell some and I thought they looked neat--he just got hired by ICG as a graded!!
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Morgan Fred,
I'm not familiar with the issues that you speak of. I'm interested. What books would provide me with the basic background information..?
catman
Urg. You hadda ask.  I don't know off the top of my head (or the bottom either). I brought up the subject since I've run across a few Upper Canada coins recently (past two or three years) because I travel extensively in Canada (Labrador). Lemme see if I can dig something up. |
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I just got the Standard Catalog to Canadian Colonial Tokens yesterday. Very good book. Think Red Book for pre Confederated Canadian Coinage. I too recently started a Canadian Large Cent set and that has drawn me to the earlier issues as well. Really falling for the "Gray Side"!! |
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Thanks for the links and book suggestion. I will start there and see if anything peaks my interest.
I do want to start the half dollar collection of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Catman- I can understand your excitement! I have a couple of Canadian Large Cents, the dates are escaping me at the moment. They're not in the best of shape, but the story behind how I found them is pretty good. I had to disassemble (am I the only one who thinks of "Short Circuit" whenever I say that word?  ) the coin counting machine at work because it kept jamming up. Much to my surprise, I found the two Canadian cents down in the machine, snockering up the works. How they got there and how long they'd been there I'll never know, but they're mine now! Rachel [:p] |
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Kyra- Do the bank coin cointing machines handle the larger coins such as the half, Sacs or Ikes? Just a curious little question that popped into my head reading your previous post. |
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Thanks Fred
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Any time, Speedy. I flatter myself by even knowing of the existence of Upper Canada and Bank of Upper Canada coins. Many Canadians are unaware of the term "Upper Canada" and much of pre-Confederation history, one of the most fascinating (at least to me) periods of history of North America. It was an age of discovery (think Northwest Passage), adventure (the Franklin and MacKenzie Expeditions), and rugged men (sorry, ladies) who braved the most incredible and treacherous landscape in the world. (Sorry - I briefly lost myself in a fantasy.) |
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Kyra- Do the bank coin cointing machines handle the larger coins such as the half, Sacs or Ikes? Just a curious little question that popped into my head reading your previous post.
The coin machine we have can count the halves, but any Sackies, SBAs, and Ikes just get dumped in the half drawer and counted as a half. So, we have to go through the coin as we're pouring it into the machine and pick out any dollar coins and add them back into the total at the end. Rachel [:p] |
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Kyra- Thanks for the info, Ikes and Sacs should be pretty easy to detect, but I wonder if any SBA's have slid through and counted as halves (of coarse I am sure that NONE have on your watch!  ). That would be a 50 cent loss to the customer for each one that got through. I guess just to be on the safe side, one should pull all of the halves and dollars out before hand. (like there are that many received in circulation to be concerned with!) I have a tupperware container full of Halves, SBA's and Sacs that I was thinking about cashing in (I bet they'll just love that at the bank  ), I just keep holding off waiting for Vol. 2 of the CherryPickers Guide to come out first so that I don't return any nice varieties. (Wonder how much longer we'll have to wait for that one, I see they finally have a picture of it on the web site, but still no solid release date.) Until then, the kids get a kick out of them and they make nice tips as well! |
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I always check the half dollar drawer and make sure no dollars got through. If they did I just add 50 cents for each one into the total. If I didn't, my coin total wouldn't balance, and I have enough trouble balancing that sucker! Still no word on Volume 2 of the Cherrypicker's Guide, huh? I'm beginning to believe it doesn't actually exist... Rachel [:p] |
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