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Gold Colored Commemoratives
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Old Post Posted 06/03/2023  5:55 pm
The rcm has admitted during this time period of the varnish or rinse reacting and causing the gold colouring, kind of cool looking effect but not if you want a silver colour
Forum: Canadian Variety and Error Coins
 
$50 Polymer Out Of Atm- Ink Smear?
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Old Post Posted 05/13/2023  10:34 pm
Is the smear on top of the 50 #
Forum: Canadian Bank Notes and Paper Money - Including Grading, Varieties, and Errors
 
Charles To Appear On $20 Bills
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Old Post Posted 05/07/2023  10:12 am
Eventually preproduction designs from De La Rue will get out into the market place, these would be intersting !
Forum: Canadian Bank Notes and Paper Money - Including Grading, Varieties, and Errors

2023 Toronto Coin Expo
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Old Post Posted 05/07/2023  10:03 am
Saturday was busy great to see many friends again, to the lucky error bidders these lots went for really reasonable prices for cool errors
Forum: Canadian Coins and Colonial Tokens
 
Worth Buying This Near Ladder?
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Old Post Posted 05/06/2023  7:22 pm
There is a reason the note was offered for 30 bucks
Forum: Canadian Bank Notes and Paper Money - Including Grading, Varieties, and Errors
 
18 Subject Uncut Silver Certificate Sheet Just Back From PMG
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Old Post Posted 05/02/2023  6:32 pm
That is surely cool !
Forum: US Paper Money and Banknotes
 
Advanced Notice From RCM For New Royal Coins Cancelled
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Old Post Posted 05/01/2023  6:33 pm
On the last local coin club a member had a British large coin with the new King"s image, it look better than I thought
Forum: Canadian Commemoratives and Non-Circulating Coinage (NCLT)
 
2018 Armistice Toonies
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Old Post Posted 05/01/2023  12:06 am
How about a pic ?
Forum: Canadian Variety and Error Coins
 
Asking For Help With This 2022 Loonie
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Old Post Posted 04/29/2023  8:46 pm
Just die chips
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Weird Coin, Queen Side Only, No Date Cladding? Fake Coin?
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Old Post Posted 04/24/2023  3:47 pm
Without a in hand look, best guess is a split planchet brockage and the marks along the edges are tools to release the stuck coin. Magician coins are two headed or tail units as struck coins not one side as a brokage, worth the trip to PCGS when you photo next time just use the normal coin side by side this would avoid confusion
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Weird Coin, Queen Side Only, No Date Cladding? Fake Coin?
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Old Post Posted 04/24/2023  2:31 pm
So the coin in question has 2 queens with one side reversed, and weight ?
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Weird Coin, Queen Side Only, No Date Cladding? Fake Coin?
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Old Post Posted 04/24/2023  1:40 pm
Depending on weight, the thin unit is a obverse brockage, the coin has a split in it ?
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Black Toonie Errors Or Varieties We Should Know About?
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Old Post Posted 04/21/2023  10:18 am
Most if not all the black toonies in the poly rolls the end coins look really well strucl as if the rcm took extra care tp produce these special coins.
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National Postage Stamp & Coin Show (04/15-16)
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Old Post Posted 04/16/2023  3:41 pm
I was asking some knowledgeable dealers on Friday as we previewed the auction lots the 1925 500 dollar note although it has some problems most dealers said 120000 to 150000 range sold for around 260000 plus taxes, great to see this note in hand but it has a nasty problem in the right center, good luck to new owner.
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The RCM May Not Care, But I'm Throwing In The Proverbial Towel.
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Old Post Posted 04/12/2023  8:02 pm
I have read recently that the US mint costs around 2 to 3 cents to manufacture a penny and at the 2013 Winnipeg tour, the manager said around 13 cents costs for a loonie, not a best guess. Just think of the many steps of prduction for a simple penny, 2 or 3 cents is quite cheap, look at what Home Depot charges for a simple washer. Good luck on collecting
Forum: Canadian Coins and Colonial Tokens
 
The RCM May Not Care, But I'm Throwing In The Proverbial Towel.
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Old Post Posted 04/12/2023  7:04 pm
I believe during the debate about keeping or losing the penny around the 2010 era, it costs about 2 to 3 cents to make a penny, just like what the US debate today, the penny serves really no purpose in today"s economy. The rcm employs good union wages which I believe accounts for most of the cost of a circulation coin, back in 2013 rcm Winnipeg tour, a tour manager said it costs 13 cents to make a loonie
Forum: Canadian Coins and Colonial Tokens
 
The RCM May Not Care, But I'm Throwing In The Proverbial Towel.
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Old Post Posted 04/12/2023  5:59 pm
The US Bureau of Engraving should be the first country to move into poly, due to extensive lobbying by one company Crane mainly they keep making an easily counterfeited currency, that is from the largest economy !The US penny is same story a couple planchet suppliers lobbies the Washingtopn to keep these jobs , there is no logic in producing a penny in todays economy, we are over a decade since last penny nothing remotely drastic happenned here except the goverment saved a decent amount of not producing over a billion useless penny a year.
Forum: Canadian Coins and Colonial Tokens
 
The RCM May Not Care, But I'm Throwing In The Proverbial Towel.
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Old Post Posted 04/12/2023  2:48 pm
Just to add the black toonie is quite well done, an example of the rcm could create something special for general circulation although the ring could be a touch darker
Forum: Canadian Coins and Colonial Tokens
 
The RCM May Not Care, But I'm Throwing In The Proverbial Towel.
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Old Post Posted 04/12/2023  2:44 pm
The rcm job is to create a cost effective mildly secure coins for us and many other countries, even the US has switiched to their forms of plated or sandwich coins to save mpney at least we are not using aluminum planchets. Remember around the bird series almost nobody accepted the 100.00 notes, now everyone seems to be okay with the poly notes, the BOC poly notes seems to have solved the most important problem, most of the world is slowly moving this direction. The BOC was doing poly tests with Duranotes in the bird series, but they waffled on cost and as result another two series of paper counterfeits
Forum: Canadian Coins and Colonial Tokens
 
Geffrey Bell Auction
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Old Post Posted 04/10/2023  6:04 pm
Some of those scallop planchets are seldom seen and so are the toonies, really cool stuff
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