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 Canada
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my choices seem to change weekly...
1920 large cent (last large cent)
anything from 1967
1987 voyager dollar (last "silver" dollar)
1999 twoonie. mostly because I just sold the error version that makes up my avatar :)
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Canada
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oooww, is that a large bust specimen by any chance? Yes it is :) Originally graded by ICCS, but moved to a CCCS hard slab for the viewing clarity their holder offers. The '73 LB is just one of those coins that has always been on my favorites list! |
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yup => the 1973 Mountie is certainly a new-age Canadian coin-classic ... that's a beautiful coin! Ummmm however => I must admit that I wish they'd also made a 1973 Caribou, for my OCD makes me all rattled that 1967 & 1973 are the only years between 1937 and 2012 that there were "not" caribou quarters minted (aaaaahhhhh!) => ahhhhh, how can they do that to me! (don't they know that will drive me crazy!)   |
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Canada
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They had you in mind, obviously.
I simply read the title of the thread and gave my answer. It doesn't say anything about the collector, just canada.
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Canada
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Hard to narrow down to 4 but it would have to be the penny maple leaf, the nickle beaver , the cariou 25 cent, the shield 50 cent. But the voyager dolllar is iconic.
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Canada
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In my opinion, they must be circulation coins, because that's what tourists usually get and keep with them while leaving for their homeland. All the images on ordinary circulation coins (Caribou, Maple Leaves, Beaver, Schooner, Loon, Polar Bears) are the top items/animals that represent Canada. When I was younger I remebered a song "I've Got Canada in my Pocket".
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United States
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There are so many interesting and beautiful designs from Canada that it makes it hard to point out just four. This one has sentimental value to me as I was born in 1958 in the pacific Northwest and I found it in circulation.  |
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=> that's a very cool coin, muddler ... it certainly is very British Columbia! (I was born in Victoria, B.C.)
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Canada
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stevex6: The Loonie and Toonie didn't/won't be steel until this year. Did you mean base metal, instead of starting out as silver?
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Hey dialog gvf, you're correct ... funny, I merely assumed that they were made of plated steel => thanks for educating me!  |
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 Canada
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Wade, I love your avatar by the way!
"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 OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Canada
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Wade, the world needs to know about that avatar! To make it easy, please just mention: A) as hoped B) more C) less The rest we can figure out... Thanks! |
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Canada
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https://goccf.com/t/106165staircase, it was more than your initial estimate (above thread), I was very pleased and so was the buyer. i used some of the cash to replace coins that I pawned as a teenager (for beer and girls... seemed worth it at the time!) and to get my 2 kids started on some type sets and world junk. plus I've "met" some really nice people along the way, hard to put a value on that.
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02/20/2012 5:20 pm
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wow wade, that's a very cool story ... I hadn't read it until now (awesome find!)
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Canada
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It's great to hear things turned out well, congrats!
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Posted 02/15/2012 12:27 am
