One Of Canada's Scarcest Coins For Sale Today - 1670 15 Sols

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Smallcentguy Pillar of the Community Canada 1984 Posts	Posted 01/10/2022 2:27 pm I have been following this auction for a while. https://coins.ha.com/itm/french-col...-dailystatus This 1670 15 sols is considered to be a Canadian colonial coin and with the exception of the 1670 2 sols and the 1911 dollar is perhaps the scarcest of Canadian coins. This is the first one up for auction in quite a while and is one of perhaps a handful out there. I would not be surprised to see it break $100,000. At one stage when I got back into coins I mulled trying to get one of these (I have the 5 sols) but I am not pursuing this one........ Report this Post to the Staff

CAmint Valued Member Canada 64 Posts	Posted 01/10/2022 3:20 pm Very interesting piece! Report this Post to the Staff
DBM Pillar of the Community Canada 9875 Posts	Posted 01/10/2022 7:24 pm It's an interesting and scarce coin, but I believe it's about as relevant to Canadian coins as the1916c sovereign. To each their own. "Dipping" is not considered cleaning... -from PCGS website Edited by DBM 01/10/2022 7:25 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Smallcentguy Pillar of the Community Canada 1984 Posts	Posted 01/10/2022 7:57 pm US$110,000 Report this Post to the Staff
t360 Pillar of the Community United States 2703 Posts	Posted 01/10/2022 7:57 pm This is a very nice piece, and I would love to add it to my French collection. However, I'm not in a position right now to afford it. And my wife would kill me. Report this Post to the Staff
Smallcentguy Pillar of the Community Canada 1984 Posts	Posted 01/10/2022 11:39 pm Just as a PS DBM.... Obviously there is debate and no real proof about where the 1670 coins were sent and circulated. However, my grandfather picked up two of the 5 sols in Ottawa between around 1900 and around 1930 along with many, many hundreds of pre-Confederation tokens and essentially no other coins from French colonies. These examples may have migrated from a distant French colony to Ottawa from at some point after 1670 and before 1930. That would have taken a pretty unusual set of circumstances to happen. I would be much more inclined to believe that they came to Canada in the early years of the French rule in Canada and stayed in Quebec/Ontario for the intervening years. So I will take the position that the 1670 coins did at least in part come here. Report this Post to the Staff
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