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that the Canadian 1936 dot cent is a very rare coin, most of you Canadian coin collectors already know this, but what of our collecting friends in other lands, some of you who are new to the hobby may not be aware of this. It has been reported for instance that only 3 (All in mint state) are known to exist. There are some used pieces that have been reported over the years but none have been TPGd. It has been said that no genuine coins of this type ever made it into circulation. According to Charlton a supposedly official mintage of almost 700,000 pieces were made. Do you have one hiding in a drawer some where, or did grandpa give you a jar of mixed pennies that you just havent got around to sorting yet..  |
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 3 known out of a supposed 700,000 pieces made  now where is that Christmas Wish List thread  |
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The greatest hoax in Canadian coins IMO
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Canada
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Being so rare brings the question; when a coin stop being a coin and become a pattern?
Canadian 1911 silver dollar comes to mind.
Another rarity is the 1969 10c large date, I used to work in a restaurant for almost 10 years and I look at every 10c coins I could put my hands on to no avail.
Edited to say those years where before the debit card era, most people paid cash with the occasional credit card
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11/17/2011 9:48 pm
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I'm with DBM on this one. The legend of the '36 dot cent is what makes it a six figure coin, not the circumstances by which it came to be. The 1969 10c however is a bona fide modern rarity. It is quite possible that a couple 1969 LD's are still floating around out there, and to me that makes it a collector coin, not a "money" coin.
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Great observation it is one of those delemas in coin collecting. There was a pole recently that indicated most on this site collect to fill an album.What is the standard of what completes a set or collection. Is it by year, mint marks[ie,47 plain and 47 leaf then different again, with dot and then the curve of the seven. How many do you include.The 1859 1 cent would be the best example, it is pre confederation but hard to ignore, great part of history, must have and common, but endless varieties. what is complete?
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This coin is the ultimate back door job, as it was (as the story goes) the Master of the Mint at the time that moved 3 coins out the back door into his personal collection. I suppose that made it authorized.
As the story goes, some 20 years later, the widow of that Master of the Mint sold those 3 coins to John Jay Pittman. How Mr. Pittman knew of their existence is a mystery.
As there is no evidence that this is a circulation strike, I don't care that I'll never have one in my collection.
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Are all three still in Mr. Pittman's private collection?
(sorry, I don't know who Mr. Pittman is either)
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Did you know..."The odds against there being a bum on a plane are a million to one, and against two bums a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bum. Not a lot of people know that." - Benny Hill
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11/22/2011 2:33 pm
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Are all three still in Mr. Pittman's private collection? Unfortunately, he passed away in 1996. His story is the ultimate example of David vs. Goliath, he was not a rich person by career, but in the end had managed to assemble a collection that auctioned for around $30 million. You still see Pittman pedigreed coins out there from time to time. The "best" of the three '36 dot cents sold a little while back for around $400,000. |
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