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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Apparently the Queen has decided to visit the Commonwealth of Virginia. And brought the crown jewells with her.  Only 1 in 10,000 cents. She must still be a little miffed with the colonies.  Anyway I got her and if you want her back, it's going to cost a KINGs ransom in silver.  |
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United States
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huh? I.....aaaaaa......what Jim I guess I confuse easy.  |
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United States
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Jim, Apparently MorgansRmine resides in our great state of Virginia (which is in fact a Commonwealth) and I'm guessing he found a Canadian cent. A little surprised that he only found 1 out of 10,000 cents. Here in Florida I find usually about 1 per 500 cents or so. But we have Canadians who Winter here, so that's probably why.  Edited by Firecom911
01/12/2008 11:07 am
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I assume MRM is talking about Canadian coins being found in change there.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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United States
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Now I get it, told you I confuse easy. I am a little surprised with the quantity found, also. I am in Maryland (the Eastern Shore) and typically find about 4 or 5 in every $50 dollars in cents that I go thru. Amazing what a geographic change will do.
Jim
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United States
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lol I too live in a commonwealth. Pennsylvania. I usually will see some canadian pennies and quarters floating around.
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 United States
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Took a while, but the King has finally arrived to claim his Queen.   While trying to research this coin, I noticed some 47s have that little star or maple leaf after the date and some don't. Is this a variety coin ? |
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Yes. The "maple leaf after the date" indicates the coin was actually struck in 1948. India declared independence in 1947 and London was a little slow in supplying the branch mint in Canada the master dies with IND IMP (Emperor of India) removed from the obverse legend. The Canadians didn't want to cause offence by declaring the king to still be emperor of India when he wasn't anymore. But they still needed to make coins, so they "back-dated" them, using the maple leaf marks to distinguish them from "real 1947" coins.
This is also the reason that coins actually dated 1948 are normally scarcer than either of the 1947 varieties.
All Canadian denominations issued in 1947 also have a "1947 maple leaf" variety.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Canada
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In 1948, the new dies hadn't arrived yet, and there was a demand for new coins, so they used the 1947 dies, but added the maple leaf. There are also several varieties of the 1947ML if you care to go that deeply into varieties. These are more common than 1948 coins. Edit: Sap types faster, or I got distracted by work, I won't say which.  Edited by Topher
05/08/2008 09:55 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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Apparently the Queen has decided to visit the Commonwealth of Virginia
LOL, you are off by about a year Queen Elizabeth II was actually in Virginia May 4, 2007 for the the 400th anniversary celebration of Jamestown. |
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United States
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here in new york, I seem to get to see the Queen in my pocket every 3 or 4 rolls....more common than a Wheatie...
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United States
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Morgan wrote:
Only 1 in 10,000 cents.
Thats about my average finds for George VII.
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Canada
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Also check your 7's.
Theres 2 variety's. The pointed seven and a blunt 7
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Posted 01/12/2008 11:04 am
