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Forgot about the Newfoundlanders!
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Since there were no Canadian .925 coins being minted, it had to be on a foreign (at the time) planchet.
Excellent error coin.
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I found myself admiring your coin more for its colour than the error, especially the flames. Weird huh!  |
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It goes to show you the capabilities of PCGS and their wonderful knowledge of the Canadian and provincial series. If it is as you say .925 silver (XRF) ,there is nothing else it can be except struck on a Newfoundland planchet. Wonderful piece SPP !
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Jack....you doubt me.....I am hurt..............MM LOLOL was in a CCCS hard holder stating on NFLD pl, PCGS put 10 cents LOLOL
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That is a stunner of a coin. Thanks for posting!
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MM I would never doubt the Gospel of Nickelsguy! Just the wisdom of the US plastic Gods. Brings up another point to ponder about SPP neat error. Is it possible that there are some sterling silver Canada George VI ten cents out there? Hmm......
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Cool coin.
http://www.victoriancent.com2011 & 2025 Fred Bowman Literary Award Winner, 2020 J. Douglas Ferguson Award Winner, & 2022 Paul Fiocca Award Winner. Life Member of RCNA.
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Possibly, but there are metallurgical issues with just doing surface analyses on Canadian silver coins... due to the annealing and rolling, silver ions migrate outward to the surfaces of the coins when being rolled, and also during the strike. Any mint state silver dollar under the XRF will show enriched silver values, right up to sterling levels... so the XRF is not conclusive or absolute if this was a NFLD 10c or a normal Canadian 10c. PCGS probably took the safe route by just calling it Canadian (knowing that the RCM also minted NFLD coins). See this paper, there is a section in there on modern struck silver alloy coins: Beck., L., Bosonnet, S., Reveillon, S., Eliot, D. and Pilon, F. 2004. Silver surface enrichment of silver-copper alloys: a limitation for the analysis of ancient silver coins by surface techniques. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Vol. B226, p. 153-162. "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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Just a superb error. Thank you for sharing and explaining
the approach taken by PCGS. It certainly makes sense.
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Coming home to Zonad, after staying with Mikey for a while. Thanks Mikey, and Roger.
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I was just talking to a friend about this coin last night, glad to see that it is going to a great home(not that it wasn't before). A truly amazing example of an early wrong planchet(and possibly wrong country planchet?) Error.
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Randy, it has a good home now, and I am very pleased to know that it now joins your other outstanding Canadian errors. I _was_ tempted to keep it, mainly to use it as future "Zonad trade-bait"...  Congrats sir!! "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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