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hello forum friends, lately there has been lots and I mean lots of activity revolving around the province of Canada 1859 cents due to the amount of variety in the one coin. so I thought to myself "we should have a Canadian sum forum for 1859 Canadian cents and their varieties" then the idea evolved up till my current thought that we should have a Canadian sub forum dedicated to the issues of 1858, 1859(including varieties), tokens and provincial issues due to the fact that they are all pre-confederation issues loaded with varieties. another reason I think this is a good idea is because there are lots of people who are either long time experts or people interested in these issues and are just getting in to them(me). anyway I am looking for comments and maybe the forum dad or a mod could give some insight and possibly put the idea up to a vote and maybe even make my idea a reality at some point. thanks for reading and please comment  Feel free to call me Will.
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01/11/2015 4:50 pm
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I once suggest a subform for Provincial (pre-1867) coinage here, a looooong time ago... for quite some time, I didn't get a reply. Then, one day, while I was working at home, the doorbell rang and a box was delivered to me in the mail. When I opened it, a white gloved hand, perhaps belonging to SsuperDdave(?), reached out and slapped me!! Then, it handed me a folded note... I opened that note, and it said, "NO"All joking aside, if there is not a subform for Indian Head penny and Buffalo nickel collectors in the US forums, whose numbers far outnumber those here who dive into Provincial strikes, then it is pretty unlikely to happen. That said, there is a VAM dollar subform... I think it really depends on the kind of traffic one would anticipate. "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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i would like that idea, but there isn't many people that have/collect pre confederation coins. I'm sure if you convince someone enough they would allow it.
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thanks for your thoughts, spp, perhaps you or I could start a vote to see the amount of people who would visit it?
Feel free to call me Will.
Edited by thedollarman
01/11/2015 4:51 pm
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coinschangelives, the way I imagine it a lot of it would involve discussion about the cent issues of 1859 along with lots of variety identification.
Feel free to call me Will.
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Pillar of the Community
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bump
Feel free to call me Will.
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Quote:if there is not a subform for Indian Head penny and Buffalo nickel collectors in the US forums, whose numbers far outnumber those here who dive into Provincial strikes, then it is pretty unlikely to happen . the US collectors section gets MODERN and CLASSIC sub forums (each with it's own sub forums for varieties & grading) so in a small way they already have what SPP, dollarman, and others have requested. while I don't think we need a sub forum just for large cents (especially not for just 1858 & 1859) there is more variety in the first 50 years then there is for the following 150 & it makes sense to have pre-1867 sub forum. +1 vote. |
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Why only Canadians and no US? Probably 75% of the established 'experts' in preconferation coinage are American, especially ones who visit coin sites.
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Pillar of the Community
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Now that you mention it I think you're right, I was thinking more about the opinion of Canadians than who the actual experts are. Anyone can vote and please forgive me for that stupid rule.
Feel free to call me Will.
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Forum Kid
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hey I think that there should be a clipped planchet section, oh wait... I don't think it is necessary. if one wanted info on the type of coins, then just go to the forum and do it. no problem.
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Pillar of the Community
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I see what you're saying but clips are already in the variety and error forum, the forum I'm thinking of actually could make sense due to the overwelming amount of info and varieties in pre-con. Tokens, provincial and province of canada coins, and it would make sense even more because they were issued before we were a country.
Feel free to call me Will.
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Pillar of the Community
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I am in favor.
I already respond to most inquiries concerning Canadian Colonial Tokens.
The data provided is rather extensive and honest, but inquiries are rather
few. I have no expertise in US colonial coinages.
I already respond to most inquiries concerning 59 vickies.
If and when improvements are made, I suggest limiting each discussion thread
to a specific coin. Oftentimes a current thread has photos of three or four
different coins and it is somewhat difficult to ascertain which response applies
to which coin.
Another concern is the archival archives of the site. Perhaps I do not know my
way around the site well enough to access the information. How does one locate
a thread that is a couple years old?
doug
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Pillar of the Community
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Colonial, did you vote in my poll about this?
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Pillar of the Community
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The traffic in the Canadian forums is not so large that it is hard to scan the new listings. That being said, I rarely bother looking at the Canadian NCLT and the grading forums due to time constraints.
It might also make sense to have a single Canadian forum for all posts where the poster has to fill in a few fields that appear on the summary of posts that allow for searching. So we could have a pull-down menu field that described the central point of the post (e.g., grading, error help, NCLT, variety identification) and maybe a field for denomination (which could include an option for pre confederation). There are probably a couple of other things that would also make sense.
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To thedollarman
I voted yes.
doug
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