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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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Yeah, you won't notice how tiny bimetallic coin cores are until they're removed from the ring. A toonie core is almost the same size as the tiny Singapore 1 cent.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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You can actualy see the groove around the core that creates the lock with the ring. I've found alot of funny things mixed into penny rolls, washers, buttons and even a couple plastic penny replicas.
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Forum Kid
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it looks fake to me, just look at the letters! the sound should be consistent! plus it has been in circulation for a long time!
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Moderator
 Canada
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"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
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VICK, I just compared the reverse letters to a real toonie and it doesn't look off. The obverse is too badly damaged to get a good comparison, unfortunately.
denny, it would be interesting to see a side view of the core.
Is that yours SPP? If there's a loose core that got struck, might there be a loose ring that got struck too?
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01/01/2015 8:12 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Did those pennies look any different, I wish I could find one of those. I like weird coins and errors.
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Pillar of the Community
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My camera isn't good enough to get a close-up of the groove, it looks just like the groove on the euro 2 cent coin only on a smaller scale. Because the date is on the ring I don't know what year it is either.
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Pillar of the Community
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SPP that penny is pretty rare, wonder how many exist. I see it was struck in 1996 the first year of the toonie. Way cool.
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Pillar of the Community
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So that's the locking mechanism of the toonies. Never thought it was that simple.
If you have a toonie core struck as a penny I think the only possible date would be 1996, unless they begin striking toonies in 1995, or they continue striking 1995 pennies in 1996.
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Pillar of the Community
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It would be interesting to see if that core struck as a penny has the grooved edge still.
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"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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