New 1936 Canada Silver Dollar Variety

if anything, it is an error, and a very minor one at that.

None of those examples are actually varieties, they are errors.

I agree with the others. This is an error and minte or minor as well. I will use Hans Zoell's definition of a "variety" that has been around and accepted for decades.

A variety is a coin, approved by the mint that was struck on a good planchet with good dies and proper pressures and machining or machinery. Anything else is an error. You seem to pluck the term "variety" out of the air and just because someone has described or noted that a certain anomaly is a variety doesn't make it so. Varieties are made by the mint or decisions made by the manager or the floor boss at the time. It may be a change of font, or repunching a weak or damaged part of the design, or a change in monarchs or legends or portraits, or alloy changes, or size changes, or anything of that sort. A very minor die crack on a damaged die is not, nor ever will be a variety.

I say to each their own on things like this.

People pay way up for JOP dollars. I am not sure why. I think I will start putting out coins with my initials.

Things like the 1936 double HP.....or say 1936 dot coins...are all about the hype around the "error", "variety" or whatever you want to call it.

My Two Cents worth....a scarce high grade coin. But there aren't many people who will pay up for this. Maybe it is worth 50% above trend. Maybe 10x. All depends on whether a "Cook" shows up at the auction.