1996 Toonie Cigar Circulated

I suppose it's worth what a buyer is willing to pay but demand for Loonie errors is not high. You'll notice that Coins and Canada doesn't list the cigar as a 1996 variety. But Charlton does, in addition to a die clash under the Queens chin, a horn and no ice. It notes "Normally clashes, die chips, etc are not listed in this catalogue. We made an exception for the two dollar coins due to their short life span. You will find clashes and chips throughout the date range."

"Short life span"...no kidding. Well circulated toonies, chips and clashes or not, almost hurt the eyes. Twenty years after the fact, what might have once been a pursuit of various dies chips and clashes on newly minted toonies has now become all too typical production errors. In my opinion it's high time that Charlton remove these four from the 1996 "variety" reference entirely because it's very confusing for a beginning collector who's trying to determine what is the basis of a complete collection.