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Canada " Fishscale " 5 Cents

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I just received my bueatiful 1858 Canada 5 cents I won on ebay and it got me to thinking. How did people avoid loosing these things being so small? I wonder how many were lost due to being so small. I'm also going to try a test with one and see how it picks up on my metal detector
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Fishscales were minted for Newfoundland 'til 1947,I wonder if anyone here actually has used them in circulation.Let us know how they work out with your detector.
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I would think that they would ring in similar to a silver dime on your detector. Around 83 - 84 on my Garrett AT PRo
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How did people not lose them? Well 5 cents could buy a lot more back then, but people did lose them, and that's why they were switched to a cheaper metal, which allowed much larger coins to be produced and of which Canada was the world's leading producer, nickel.
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