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Posted 03/11/2020 2:48 pm
On the pictures by @chadcoins the top one is Specimen with the bigger 7, and the bottom one is from Winnipeg PL set with smaller 7.
The difference in size is small 1.5 x 1.1 mm and 1.3 x 0.9 mm correspondingly, which is hard to see with the naked eye.
But it is emphasized by the sharpness of the Specimen. If you look at the coins side-by-side, the inner space of 7 on Specimen looks deeper and bigger.
It seems that the font itself is different with top part of 7 being thicker, but it may be just the visual effect created by the roundness of PL coin's date.
I count this as a coin variety but not a die variety because the difference is marginal and it exists between finishes only.
There are other coins that have different design dies for Business Strike, NBU, and PL.
For example, 2007 to 2010 Loons with RCM logo have one type of reverse for MS, and another one with a different font for NBU and PL.
That technically creates two varieties of Loons with "circulation" finish for those years.
The difference in size is small 1.5 x 1.1 mm and 1.3 x 0.9 mm correspondingly, which is hard to see with the naked eye.
But it is emphasized by the sharpness of the Specimen. If you look at the coins side-by-side, the inner space of 7 on Specimen looks deeper and bigger.
It seems that the font itself is different with top part of 7 being thicker, but it may be just the visual effect created by the roundness of PL coin's date.
I count this as a coin variety but not a die variety because the difference is marginal and it exists between finishes only.
There are other coins that have different design dies for Business Strike, NBU, and PL.
For example, 2007 to 2010 Loons with RCM logo have one type of reverse for MS, and another one with a different font for NBU and PL.
That technically creates two varieties of Loons with "circulation" finish for those years.
. It was rude of me to not have done this before. Thanks for posting. It's nice to see you like Loons. 
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