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Canada
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if you had to pick 4 coins to represent canada...
working on a world set, nothing special, just 3 or 4 from each country, circulated, random years (oldest or lowest mintage or neatest design).
77 countries in and I realized I didnt have anything from Canada!
if you had to pick 4 coins to rep Canada what would they be?
so far I have
#1 1898 penny.
no specific numismatic reason, I jut happen to find a real beauty hiding in a building I was tearing down.
#2 1967 bunny nickel.
same as the penny, plus the house offered up 4 abandoned baby bunnies that are now guarding my coin collection. I always like the '67 issues even though I dont normally care for special or commemorative strikes.
debating 1958 silver dollar (found a AU behind a fireplace mantle). but again, not really fond of special or commemorative strikes so might replace with a voyager (birth year?)
debating olympics mens hockey quarter. I love hockey, play hockey, live in vancouver and was there for the gold (and ended up demolishing a lot of olympic venues when it was all done!)
open to other suggestions. I realize its personal preference, but curious
what would YOU put in your collection?
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Canada
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1980 penny (birth year), pre-1920 5 cent coin I love the fish scales, a 1911-1921 50 cent coin love the look, 1996 Canada Silver Dollar McIntosh I used to go to the home orchard of the Mac when I was a child in eastern Ontario.
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Canada
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one cent - any one
five cent - has to be the beaver, year of birth
quarter - the hockey is good
1.00 - 5.00 - 10.00 - 20.00 any one with the maple leaf
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Canada
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Personally being from the west I would focus on what made Canada grow. Therefore #1 would be anything with the bluenose since shipping was vital for Canada, #2 the beaver made Canada through Hudsons Bay company exploration, #3 anything with the buffalo since they were removed for the farmers my preference is the 1882-1982 Regina Commerative and of course for #4 anything with the Maple leaf since its been on our coinage for so long.
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United States
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In no particular order: 1. 1973 RCMP Quarter. 2. Voyageur Silver Dollar 1953-1966 3. Nickel 1946-1950 4. Toonie 1996-2003 My reasoning: All circulating issues. Nothing particularly rare so they are easily obtained. The RCMP are an iconic Canadian image. The Voyageur dollar is a classic and gives French and Native American representation. I like the laureate portrait of QEII. The nickel has a different monarch (George VI) and is made of nickel. Has Canada's national animal. The Toonie is unique because of its bimetallic composition. Familiar to all Canadians but perhaps not to those outside of Canada. I prefer the diademed portrait. There will be a lot of good answers and undoubtedly no two will be the same!  Edited by canuck1us
02/12/2012 12:33 pm
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Canada
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Coins that are very Canadian but are actually trade tokens are the H.B.C. beaver trade tokens, I have a 20 beaver Labrador district and used to have 1/4 beaver one as well. They go right to the heart of the exploration of Canada.
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
 United States
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As a silver dollar fan, I would go with:
1) 1935 Silver Dollar -- Canada's first commemorative coin, a great portrait of George V and launch of the classic Voyageur reverse design that calls to mind Canada's early history
2) 1973 RCMP Commemorative Silver Dollar -- Hard to think of Canada without the Mounted Police coming to mind!
3) 1993 Stanley Cup Centennial Commemorative Silver Dollar -- Canada and Hockey are inseparable
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4) 1937 George VI One Cent -- One needs to have a nicely executed Maple Leaf in the set, why not a first year of issue example of a great one?!
Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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Canada
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There would be a great number of possible combinations, but I'd lean towards the 1967 series. Picking 4 out of that group is not easy! Probably the dollar, the half dollar, nickel and one cent.
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Australia
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Interesting question. Here would be my four choices.
The maple leaf cent. Any date would probably do, but the pre-1980 bronzes seem to have more depth than the modern plate jobs. Not only is it an excellent design but it's one of the few coins that actually look better when slightly circulated than in mint state.
1992 British Columbia 25 cents. I think it's probably the best attempt at illustrating the wild places of Canada on a circulating coin, even though the quarter is a bit too small to show it off properly. The Voyageur dollar would have been here instead, if they'd made the tree to actually look like a tree.
50 cents, Kruger Gray design (1937-1958). As with Kruger Gray's coats of arms done for other coinages in the Empire, his Canadian coat of arms may not be technically correct, but it has a "presence" that the later efforts lack.
Gold sovereign 1911-1918, as an illustration of Canada's role as a significant part of the British Empire.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Canada
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1) 1967 $20 Gold Coin
2) 1948 $1
3) 1858 1c
4) couldn't think of an important 4th, as my top three contained: 1967 importance, 1 popular important date coin and lastly one coin issued in the first year.
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Here are 4 pretty good lookin' reps:1967 => Canada's 100th Birthday  1981 => The Canada Arm is deployed aboard the Space Shuttle ... oh, and stevex6 graduates High School => The Bluenose is a Canadian classic  1936 => George V dies, enter George VI => Voyageur Dollar (another classic)  1948 => Newfoundland votes to join Canada (in 1948 there were only "37,784" 50 cent pieces minted!) 
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02/12/2012 8:57 pm
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Canada
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United States
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HMMM ... Wood 1, 13, 23 & 29. Blacksmiths. The beginning ... ?
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1cent => I certainly like your choices as well ...
... and you're very correct, it is very difficult to just pick "4" ...
oooww, is that a large bust specimen by any chance? (either way, nice coin)
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Canada
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This is such an interesting thread. But I wouldn't know where to start. The 5 cent Bunny is a very cool one. I keep every one I come across. They're so collected that I don't think I've ever seen one under XF/EF condition.
I would think that most Canadians know of or at least have in their collections a Mountie quarter.
The toonie is the workhorse of this country (although I was enraged when I encountered a fake first-hand).
And lastly I select the Loonie, because even Americans know what that is.
I picked only mainstream coins because they "represent" this confederation. I have to humbly disagree with everyone posting a bullion "coin" and NCLT. Every other coin here represents the Canadian coin collector, but not Canada.
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Really? ... wow, it is quite interseting how everybody's opinions vary, eh? (that's what makes collecting fun)
=> but I'm sorry, I must be very old-school, for I don't want to put either, the Loonie or the Toonie, into the running => to me, they are merely new steel coins, with absolutely "zero class" ...
but again => one man's zero-class, is another man's passion, right?
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