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Pillar of the Community
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how do you tell the difference between the "Pointed 5" and the "Blunt 5" on a 1985 Canadian small cent?
Does anybody have a picture of the 2 side-by-side?
I bought an album for them because I find so many while coin roll hunting that I thought it would be fun to try to find them all.
Thanks for any help you folks can provide!!
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Pillar of the Community
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Here you go:  The yellow key shows the difference in how the the strokes end. Have you found pointed 5s?  Edited by KurtS
12/11/2007 11:14 pm
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Canada
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In two years of searching, I've managed to find only two pointed 5's. Oddly enough they were about 3 weeks apart. I haven't seen one now in almost a year. They are pretty hard to find, but it's a great feeling when you do find them. Good luck.
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I was told to look at the leaves on rev for the 1965 no wonder I have not found one. thanks for the info
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There are also two obverse varieties for 1965.....small beads and large beads. The A in REGINA will point to a bead in the Large Variety and between in the small bead variety. The obverse and reverse were used in all possible combinations resulting in 4 varieties for that year.
Variety 1...SB P5
2...SB B5
3...LB B5
4...LB P5
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Thanks alot KurtS, that's exactly what I was looking for.
I had been looking at the bottom of the 5's trying to see a difference.
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Can you find the Pointed 5" and the "Blunt 5 on the 5c, 10c and 25c also?
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Can you find the Pointed 5" and the "Blunt 5 on the 5c, 10c and 25c also? quote:
They exist on the silver dollars as well, along with three obverse bead size varieties. Large, Small and Medium beads, for a total of 5 varieties for that year. The large and small beads can have a blunt or a pointed 5, while the medium beads only comes with a pointed 5. There is a Sm Bead Blunt 5 which has a die axis like US coinage, but only one is known in existance. |
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The large and small beads can have a blunt or a pointed 5, while the medium beads only comes with a pointed 5.
Yes, it gets rather confusing too, since those pointed/blunt features are on the lower end of the 5. The only way I could sort this all out was with a few books like Charlton's Catalogue and Charest's guide.  |
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Posted 12/11/2007 10:04 pm
