5 Cents 1932 ( Varieties : Far 2 And Near 2 )

" Clarification " for others dates that are identified " Specimen ", in the museum's coins collection of 5 cents, between 1922 and 1936.

Oh ok.... let me run to the museum just to satisfy your "clarification"... Seriously? Have you ever owned or held a specimen 5-cent in your hands? Never mind the fact that someone tells you it is a specimen - but look at the coin itself. The strike, the lustre, the rims, the devices and how those devices meet the fields. Even if I did run to the museum for "clarification" would you believe me?

I gave you an opinion based on the images shown - I said I "had my doubts", meaning that if I was at a coin show, and saw that coin in an auction as a specimen in the viewing room - I would not bid on it and might even wonder if a third party grader dropped the ball, because it looks NOTHING like any other George V specimen 5-cent coin I have seen.

If you have doubts, then why don't you do the homework, instead of me - go on the Currency museum website, and compare that 1932 with all other archived images of George V specimen 5-cents, look at the images of George V specimen coins on the PCGS registry sets, then go to Nuphilex and look at the specimen 5-cent coins that Sandy Campbell will have in his case - then draw your own conclusions.... as I have done. Maybe it is a specimen, maybe it is not... but I have never seen a specimen strike that weak, on a coin with dead lustre. That is my opinion... is it right? Well, if I was purchasing that coin, I would rely on someone who specialized in that series (there are two CCF members I know who collect that specific strike and series).

My point is learn to trust your own eyes, and by that I mean not reading the words someone else has written in a book or on a website, but by looking at the coin itself...

Well, ALL of those coins originated from the RCM - technically speaking. Most of the specimen coins at the Currency museum were probably purchased or donated from collectors. It is common to see the Bank of Canada curator at coin show auctions, if there are rare coins or bank notes on the auction block.

IF it is a specimen strike, then it should be easy to compare to other known 1932 specimen coins, I imagine all the 1932 specimen coins were struck by those same dies? In that case, those specimen strikes would not really count as the "finest known" of that variety, and could not be included in your data of business strike finds.

A Museum is always a serious reference for collectors, whether at Paris, New-York, London, Ottawa or.....

In a Museum, a Picasso is really a Picasso and a specimen coin is really a spécimen coin, until someone produce proof to the contrary.

We cannot compare the informations from a museum with the informations from ebay and other sites.

Nickelsguy, do you have a specimen 32? I will make a point of asking H.N. about his specimen 32, when at Coin Expo later this year.

Heh, following that logic, then these museums actually have credibility?

http://www.roswellufomuseum.com/museum.html

http://www.lochness.com/loch-ness-m...hibition.htm

http://bigfootdiscoveryproject.com

...and don't even get me started about museums showing Jesus riding dinosaurs....

I have said it before, trust your own eyes, and study the coin itself, not what someone says it is... then, draw your own conclusions.... I will be examining other 1932 specimen strikes, and comparing them to that in the currency collection. I will let you know what my observations are.

A quote from Bernard Haisch sums this up best,

"Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers."