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To celebrate the holiday named in her honour, post some pictures of your favourite Queen Victoria coin.  Victoria Day is a Canadian statutory holiday celebrated on the Monday preceding May 25. It honours Queen Victoria's birthday. Victoria Day is also commonly called the May 2-4 weekend (as in May 24th) and it marks the unofficial start of the cottage season where cases of beer (as in 2-4 cases) are consumed by hard working Canadians. Edited by barriecarson
05/17/2013 11:06 am
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What a great thread.... I'm at work and don't have a pic to post right now.
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Well,here in Quebec they do not like the Queen so they renamed this Holiday " La Fete des Patriotes" for the Frenchmen that fought the Englishmen.Do not remimber the dates. Poeple do not realy care about the name of the Holiday.They just like the day off.  |
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The 24th of May,
The Queen's birthday,
If we don't get a holiday,
We'll all run away
Years ago it always fell on the 24th,and was popularly called "Firecracker Day"
Is there anywhere in the country where it is still celebrated with fireworks?
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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05/17/2013 3:36 pm
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Lots of temporary fireworks vendors here in Ottawa for this weekend....
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Hail to the Queen. a nice MS65 sample  |
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Actually,..many of us here in Quebec do celebrate Victoria Day in a very big way. I should probably use this great presentation vicky again on July 1. May Queen Elizabeth II's reign last for many more years too....I'm sure that she will get to 63 years...and set the bar a little higher.    |
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But if it's only to be "coins" then here's another one of my large cents to keep the celebration going.. .    |
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I can't let you guys have all the fun... here is a scarce pattern piece.   "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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wow! never saw that one before SPP, can you provide more info on it ?
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Come on SPP....Show us some more of the great ones...
Give us a little history lesson at the same time...for vicky's sake..
Patterns are so coool...Thanks for sharing...
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I think it is discraceful that we don't have a Victoria day here in the UK. I'd never say no to another statuatory holiday and this seems like a good choice to me :) And fantasitc coins one and all... I don;t really have any nice Canadian coins - but I have this one  Edited by Bacchus2
05/18/2013 1:07 pm
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Great Coin..!! ..Bacchus...
PEI joined the Canadian Confederation on July 1, 1873.
Your coin is soooo close to be a fully fledged Canadian coin that we'll give it an honorary entrance ...and of course
...all vicky coins are welcome and wanted here...
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Posted 05/17/2013 3:17 pm
