I was a young boy when this series came out and I fell in love with them, they're what got me hooked on coin collecting. My favourite is the Nickel of course
This penny served as the genisis of my coin collection; As a very young boy (pre-kindergarten) I have a piggy bank full of pennies; I had one 1967 penny - I called it "the bird penny"; Every now and then I would dump out my piggy bank, just to look at it.
I think it's pretty cool that you're using these to help spawn some of the next generation of collectors.
Side note; To this date, I don't think I have a single circulation example as nice as any of the ones pictured!
unruhjonny: if you don't have a '67 in UNC send me a message I have a few.. your story was awesome and we should get you a really nice "bird penny" to put back in the piggy bank!
I bought a 1967 Centennial set years ago and it is one of the main things that sparked my interest in Canadian coins. A really nice set of designs and you don't have to break the bank to buy them
Quote: A dozen clips in a bag of 6000 - at that rate, the mint shipped 690,000 clipped coins that year. :)
Well, clips happen during a hiccup of the blank punching process, so one single hiccup will result in at least six clips at once. I suspect this happens in clusters, and highly doubt that more than 10,000 clips exist from this year.
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