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BoomerAD787 New Member Canada 24 Posts	Posted 03/17/2015 11:23 am Why is there such a large difference in price between these two coins? Is it survival rate in MS? Just curious about this. Mintage 1 cent 1938 : 16 365 608 Mintage 1 cent 1941 : 56 336 011 Report this Post to the Staff

AgCoinAu Pillar of the Community Canada 3049 Posts	Posted 03/17/2015 11:41 am yes Report this Post to the Staff
Pacificoin Pillar of the Community Canada 5394 Posts	Posted 03/17/2015 11:53 am Years ago there was a monster hoard of small cents that was found in a major Canadian Dept. stores cash office (as memory serves me EATONS ). The coins were 1937 through 1940 and a ton of later 1940s through mid 1950 s. The 1941 and 1942 years were not in it. 1941 in mint state is a very tough coin to acquire especially full reds. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10456 Posts	Posted 03/17/2015 11:59 am Composition and quality control of the bronze alloy during the war years is assumed to have been much less stringent. Finding 1941 to 1946 small cents in bright red colour is very challenging, which probably reflects the MS-65 price (since ICCS does not give MS-65 grades to red-brown and toned coins). "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 Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
Petersun Pillar of the Community Canada 1700 Posts	Posted 03/17/2015 12:17 pm Perhaps the war? Report this Post to the Staff
Pacificoin Pillar of the Community Canada 5394 Posts	Posted 03/17/2015 1:08 pm The war had a lot to do with it for sure. SPP is right about the quality control issues. The 1943 to 1946 issues have a very different "look" than the earlier issues. I bought some original rolls of stuff from a retired west coast dealer and just a quick summary........... the 1937, 1938, 1939 and 1940 coins were spectacular with some RED (100%) MS 66 coins coming back. There were no rolls of 1941, 42 , 44. The 1943 , 45 and 46 were nice but nothing higher than a 64 for the 1943 and 1945 coins The 1946 coins had a few MS65 coins. The colouration is much different for the 1943 to 1946 coins. That said you get spectacular colours on some of the toned coins. To find a true GEM full red 1944 is nigh on impossible, only seen one that would qualify as nearly full red and it was lacquered. Report this Post to the Staff
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