1936 25 Cent Dot

Yeah, the bar is not a die crack, it was put there purposely to commemorate something.

Question remains unanswered Pacificoin.

What research do you have that the 1936 25 cent dot is a 1937 issue?

DBM, you are correct about the 35 dollar. George V was very much alive at the time.

"As in 1910, Canada had taken the precaution of stockpiling extra coins for the transitional period. Still the possibility existed that the supplies might be exhausted. It was decided to continue minting 1936-dated coins using the obsolete King George V dies with the old reverses. Thus, in the first quarter of 1937, some 678,823 one cents, 191,237 ten cents, and 153,322 twenty-five cents of this type were produced. At least some of the reverse dies for this extraordinary posthumous coinage were marked with a small dot.

However the anticipated shortage did not matreialize. This was attributable to the volume of coins on hand, and the relatively low demand at the time, and especially the grace in which the new King obliged The Royal Mint's artists with special sittings. (A new effigy was already completed and approved by February 11.) Most of the "1936 dot" coins were not needed. Only the twenty-five cent piece was actually issued. A few rare examples of the cent and ten cent survive, all of the others apparently having been melted down."

Haxby, J. A., Striking Impressions p. 152-154

I suspect from the "rumour Mint".

Any mention of what years these two served as Masters of the Mint?

Thanks for the info SlurExe97, don't have a copy of the book myself and I'm not very good at surfing the net.

Perhaps the two mentioned Mint Masters provided some sort of technical info or just wanted to see their names in print.

I agree with Zonad on the rumour Mint comment.

Maybe your library has a copy of the 1937 Mint Report, will quickly show that a portion of what Haxby wrote is not fact.