2017 Canada 150 Loon Dollar, Lighthouse Stripe - Page 2

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oldmike Pillar of the Community Canada 891 Posts	Posted 11/18/2018 5:04 pm Photo's of 2017 150 loon Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10456 Posts	Posted 12/20/2018 12:12 pm I spoke with a production manager of the Royal Canadian Mint in Winnipeg. He sent me a photo of the master punch, used to make all the working dies for this coin. It does not have the line in it. There were no other punches used to make the working dies. This feature is the product of a die break, but rather serendipitous... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
TerryT Pillar of the Community Canada 818 Posts	Posted 12/24/2018 02:43 am That looks more like a slip of an engraving tool. Of course The Mint didn't make a mistake. Hmmm... one master ? Would you only have one if you were the boss ? Hmmm.. a backup , Hmmm.. Nah, pshaw, we'll be okay with only one ! What could go wrong ? ! Report this Post to the Staff
SP67 Valued Member Canada 234 Posts	Posted 04/29/2025 8:17 pm I'm bringing this post up. I finally got an example of this coin after few years of research. This is not a die crack. My conclusion is a broken hub that produces few working dies with few variants of the stripes position. Some rise elements of the hub have broken but stay attached with different positions. These new features were replicated on some working dies. On my pictures you can see that the texture of the original position of the stripes is quite rough which a a sign of the damage. On the second picture, you can also notice on the top part of the left strip a small additional segment. Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 187446 Posts	Posted 04/30/2025 08:28 am Thank you for the update. Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
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