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Often reffered to as the 'Emperor of Canadian Coins', the 1911 dollar is extremely rare with a surviving mintage of only 2 in silver. These two in existance are believed to have escaped the mint through the back door. Can I have anyone who knows anything about this rarity please post it here? Thank you so much-the information will be helpful!  Edited by noahs-numismatics
07/24/2012 1:02 pm
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Whats the pricetag on something like this? A million?
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Canada
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^ one was sold in 2003 for $690,000...but Charlton values it at $1,250,000. One remains at the National Currency Collection aka The Canadian currency museum
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The term "King of Canadian Coins" traditionally denotes the 1921 50cent.
Some refer to the 1911 dollar as "Emporer"
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Pillar of the Community
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Just check Wikipedia. There are other online articles as well, just google it. If you want a short read, buy the Charlton catalogue.
The 1921 50c is the king, the 5c the prince. Both have entries on Wikipedia.
Those attending TOREX years ago had the privilege of examining this coin (and many other rarities) passed around by Belzberg.
The coin is currently own by a Calgary collector who intends to donate it to a, yet undisclosed, museum.
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As RoyalSilver stated, one is in the Bank of Canada Currency Museum in Ottawa for all to see. They also have one struck in lead, beleived to be a test token for the dies. If you have the chance it is definately worth visiting, not just for these but MANY beautiful Canadian and Provincial coins and tokens.
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Often reffered to as the 'King of Canadian Coins', the 1911 dollar is extremely rare with a surviving mintage of only 2 in silver. These two in existance are believed to have escaped the mint through the back door. Not quite... There are tons of literature available about this coin, how it was intended to be struck, but how it never came to be... The 1911 silver dollar is a pattern strike. Three patterns are known to exist, two in silver and one struck in lead. They were never snuck out the back door of the mint. "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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They were never snuck out the back door of the mint.
How did one get into private hands? Edited by dialog_gvf
07/25/2012 12:45 am
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Have either of these EVER come up for auction?
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Yes, I believe one sold by Heritage Auctions for $690, 000 in 2003 as mentioned above by RoyalSilver
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Well ... I gotta be me : )...
Seems we (the hobby) have more-than one debatable item in our history-past...
The 'Emperor of Canadian Coins' title, is very appropriate in my opinion ... as the story about the "Emperors new clothes" about sums it up...
I can readily see, that others in the hobby do-not see what I do ... when it comes to the 1911 1$ token...
Sometimes ... the obvious, can-be a little too obvious...
dts...
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