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New Member
Canada
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So I was getting my morning coffee and got this back in my change. My first thought was some poor sap used a proof coin as change since the portrait of the queen had that darker contrast you see in proofs, but it's magnetic so not silver. Then I thought uncirculated slipped in a roll but compared to my 2012 uncirculated set it looks even better than those! Can someone help?   Thanks Al |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1700 Posts |
Proof doesn't have to be silver.
When you say magnetic, do you mean that the whole coin is magnetic?
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New Member
 Canada
29 Posts |
I just kinda plopped the magnet on
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New Member
Canada
29 Posts |
I just checked with a small magnet, only the outer rim is magnetic, the inner part isn't.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
695 Posts |
Looks like a Specimen strike to me.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3167 Posts |
The coin looks to be specimen finish. The RCM started using the parallel lined background and brilliant field finish in 1996, so it could be. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3167 Posts |
Yeah, middross got it  |
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Valued Member
Canada
286 Posts |
My personal favorite strike. Great circulation find!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3167 Posts |
 me too! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
965 Posts |
awesome find  I definitely concur with everyone else, definitely a specimen strike, and like the others I prefer the specimen strike to the proof and proof-like. |
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Moderator
 Canada
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This is a specimen strike. However, this coin was most likely cut out from a proof-like set, given how much more common they are. In 1997, the Winnipeg Proof-like sets contained specimen-finish coins. Only the Ottawa sets from 1997 had proof-like surfaces.
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New Member
Canada
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awesome thanks for the info everyone! definitely going into the collection!! And to think I was going to buy a chocolate bar with it before I noticed it.
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Posted 03/27/2013 6:57 pm
