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Pillar of the Community
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defone, my home-brewed NCLT equation works like this:
if (mintage X issue price < $500k)
.....Super
else if (mintage X issue price < $1M)
.....Ok
else
.....Dud.
This equation has worked pretty good for me so far.
Edited by canadian_coins
09/20/2010 9:34 pm
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Valued Member
Canada
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received mine today. Beauty coin exellent quality and will surely be valuable key date for silver maple leaf collection. Good to know. Seems like an attractive piece (much nicer design than the standard SML, in my opinion), but I've yet to see an actual photo. |
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Valued Member
Canada
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Looks like the single Silver Piedfort has already sold out at the Mint - much quicker than I expected. I hope I can still find one through a local dealer.
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Valued Member
Canada
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the design used for the piedfort silver maple leaf if the same as the 20Th anniversary Gold plated leaf silver maple leaf but they inverted the maple leaf see, This is the 2010 Piedfort new release:  Here is the 2008 20Th anniversary with selective gold plating:  I found this interesting as I was looking at my collection I compared those two and realised that they where using same leaf design but opposite side. Edited by SilverMaple
09/26/2010 11:27 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Good point SilverMaple:  |
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Valued Member
Canada
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the design used for the piedfort silver maple leaf is the same as the 20Th anniversary Gold plated leaf silver maple leaf but they inverted the maple leaf Yep. It also appears as 'one' of the leaves on the very nice 2009 1/25-oz. gold proof ('Red Maple'), though inverted. http://www.mint.ca/store/coin/125oz...9-prod620004Nice design,I actually don't mind it being recycled! |
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Valued Member
Canada
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on this 1/25 oz of gold coin you talking, the big leaf isn't inverted it is just smaller than the original design. For the smaller leaf beside it is just rotated 1/6 turn to the left with a smaller size.
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Valued Member
Canada
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Just purchased mine today (although I can afford new coins like I can afford a hole in the head). Excellent appearance, much better than I expected (photos I've seen don't do it justice). I'm not at all a fan of reverse-proof finishes, particularly with the standard silver maple design, but this coin is an exception. Very attractive piece; glad I purchased. Likely to be a great investment piece also, for anyone who purchased more than one.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well... It sold out at the Mint.
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Valued Member
Canada
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^ It has, and it is an attractive coin, but part of the reason for these quick 'sell-outs' are large volume purchases by dealers. My local dealer received 30-40 of the silver pieces last week and claims to have sold half already.
This coin is sure to sell-out at dealers and be unavailable soon, but I know that a lot of recent Mint 'sell-outs' are sitting unpurchased in coin store stockrooms and display cases (although at appreciated/current market prices).
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Valued Member
Canada
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@Defone: Yup, the piedfort is available at 2 post offices in town here...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Comparative thickness with 1996 $2, snowflake and regular silver dollar.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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One comment posted on the Mint:
"I was lead to believe this was a 2 oz. coin; a piedfort of a 1 oz. coin. I would never have purchased it if I had known it was not a 2 oz. coin."
The vast majority had positive comments but I have to agree with this comment, the coin was disappointing. It feels small. A true piedfort would have had the same diameter of the standard 1 oz SML, but thicker. 2 oz makes more sense.
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Valued Member
Canada
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^ Always kills me to read comments like that on the mint's site. The specs are clearly stated; if somebody is disappointed, they've no one to blame but themselves (defects, etc. aside).
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree with you defone, the specs were clear. The coin does seem small however, but that is fine with me. I like the coin.
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