Multi Struck Canadian Cent

maybe your wifes grandfather squished it in a vice then your wifes grandmother found it on the garage floor and put it away

Time to lock this puppy and send the doggy home. It's not like it's a logical argument, it's a constant




This after experts have chimed in. This thread has outlived any usefulness.

its impossable to have 2 different years on the same coin, wow that explains all the coins like the 1941=42 dime 1869-8 penny 1887-86 3 cent 1918-7 quarter hears one hard to explain 1882 O over S Dollar 1880-79CC Dollar and others I guess these never happened. Face it it's a mint coins are there and maybe some older culls Stuff happens, how do you think errors happen someone makes a mistake or does something wrong.
Think people talk to the real experts the ones who worked at the MINT.

I find it hard to believe all the books written on the mint errors are by people who never ran a mint press or even consulted with people who ran the actual equipment giving them credit for their knowledge, why is that the facts that come from these books come from people who look into the errors but do not try to find out why the error occurred or how the machine produced them. What you read in the book is the collar did not engage but not why the collar did not engage. I have worked with die machines of a different kind before, I also know what happens when a die gets overloaded or jammed Iv'e even had them break from being overloaded. Iv'e seen people loose fingers to them. So I know stuff happens in a factory and the Mint even though it has heavy security is still just a factory that produces a product and sometimes that product may be less than we believe it should be but accidents happen in factories, not all are explainable and not all will be truthfully accounted for because not all people who run these factories want it to be common knowledge that stuff happens.

Comparing overdates of consecutive years on a single die to two non sequential dates on opposite sides of a Canadian cent is a cry for help. Maybe these "mint workers" you've referenced who "cleared dies with cull coins" are really only in your mind? And those "old mint books" never really existed? C'mon Strangecoins, admit it. You want so much to believe that this coin is truly a mint product that you are willing to ignore what is right in front of you as well as the accumulated numismatic knowledge of this group. Sad, really, but if it will ease your mind, I am going to the World's Fair of Money this week in Chicago and I will show your pictures to Fred Weinberg, Ken Potter, and all the guys at the CONECA table who if you don't know, ARE the experts on error coins and the minting process. As always, have nice day.

Just had a chance to look at this thread. Very obvious that the coin is fake. Also obvious that the owner is having a hard time accepting this and has dug his heels in. As already stated, owner needs to send coin into one of the major grading services and hopefully that will put an end this this. We have seen this happen many times and it won't be the last. It's just human nature but it almost always ends the same.

robmck1967 thanks and first of all, I do appreciate the info, what I did not appreciate is the fact that None and I do mean None could tell me why the coin could not be a true mint error. what I got was this could be made in my garage or a coin could not possibly have 2 dates on it, which is obviously not true 1942-41 dime. Or how the incised 1941 on the obverse of the already obvious triple strike makes the coin impossible, why? No one has shared that with me. Or how about the one who came up with the story about my wife's grandfather (who was by the way a barber) making the coin with a vise and not one has shared with me how a triple strike like this can be created in a garage or what would be the motive to create such a coin in the first place. the sad story of it being worth the money then is just foolish. Error coins in the forties & fifties were not sot after nor were they worth much especially Canadian Coins. Error coins were not sot after in ernest till the 1943 copper penny showed up in the 60s long after this coin was in my wife's grandmothers jewelry box and Canadian Coins were not doing well until the 90s. I also do not appreciate the lack of respect by people referring to me as someone who is not trust worthy or might put the coin on ebay. I have been an ebay Antiques dealer since 2001 and I research everything I put on I also have signed original US deeds on ebay one of which I put 4 years of research into before posting it. Also I am having the coin looked at and graded, and I have sent a message over to Mike Diamond of world coins. I have been collecting errors and coins all my life I do know whats possible and whats not possible. And some things are rather obvious they are fake. By the way the reverse strike on the obverse has amazing detail also, never seen a vise job or hammer pressure strike show up with as much detail. My wife is from Nova Scotia her Mother was married to the Chief justice of Nova Scotia he died in the 90s, she verified the coin being in her mother jewelry box before the 50s. My wife who I have been married to for ten years has told me about the coin but just this past week got around to showing me.