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i guess this is a two part question
i understand that "P" on your coin stands for plated. is that right? and if so when did that become a official standard?
Canadian coins only Edited by burg
10/21/2015 1:28 pm
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Canada
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welcome the community, the use of the "P" was first used in 1999 in specimen sets, but has been removed from coins since 2006, and replaced with the RCM logo. some years have both the P mint mark as well as the logo (2 types of coins minted) |
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If I understand you correctly, if a coin has "P" on it, it means it was minted in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania mint, not marking that it is plated or some other code describing its composition. It is the Mint Mark. P for Philly, D for Denver, S for San Francisco, etc.
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mattheriley, I belive the OP is referring to Canadian coins with a P on them as this is in the Canadian coin section.
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yes your right timnic44 for the Canadian coins I edited the question thanks for pointing that out
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welcome the community, the use of the "P" was first used in 1999 in specimen sets, but has been removed from coins since 2006, and replaced with the RCM logo. some years have both the P mint mark as well as the logo (2 types of coins minted) ace_ftw its not official, cause in the 2013-2015 sets the loonie is silver with gold plating, it has a "P" in a box. and I beleave I read some wheres that met it was plated. |
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Welcome to CCF Burg..you didnt have to edit your in the right section.
Yes P stands for plated and the W for Winnipeg I have found a couple W coins in circulation over the years. just so you know
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I used to have a boss named Paul when I was much younger and just starting out in life. He was a tough guy. Anyway he always wore a belt buckle with a giant P on it.  Sooner or later he'd get angry with someone and always had the same move. The short little guy would pull his glasses down his nose and look over the glasses right at you and then grab his giant P belt buckle with both hands and say 'you think this P stands for patience'. He was dead serious but man was it funny to see. Paul was a good guy in the end, just a tough guy. Back to your coins. . . . |
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Canada
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Burg, the P mint mark (is commonly known as) Plated, however the correct definition is 3 ply steel plated, so this would never be used on silver coinage.
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As I had come to understand it, the "P" on circulation grade coins was there to denote "plated steel" coins; This was done with all the circulation coinage between 1999-2006 of 1c-50c denominations; The "P" was phased out and replaced with the Royal Canadian Mint logo. The only coins from this period which were plated without the "P" were the zinc core pennies; I believe that zinc cores were being used for several years prior to the mint perfecting their steel plating process. There were never circulation "P" loonies or toonies, because when the plated steel variants were introduced, they added "security features" to further differentiate them from the conventional composition counterparts. The plated steel loonies & toonies were phased in early in 2012. :D Edited by unruhjonny
10/21/2015 2:39 pm
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Welcome to CCF Burg..you didnt have to edit your in the right section.
Yes P stands for plated and the W for Winnipeg I have found a couple W coins in circulation over the years. just so you know As I have understood it, the "W" mintmark coins were never intended to be circulation coins - only for mint sets; I too have found the occasional non-circulation coin in my searches - so it must be uncirculated "W" mint sets that are being for one reason or another, cut open and put into pocket change. |
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Canada
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i would say yea to that, as a kid I would get the proof like set for Christmas and do the same. the good old days
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Canada
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/\ /\ ha ha!
The closest I came to that was regarding the 1992 quarters, I scrimped and saved all the money I could get;
I had acquired from the local bank of montreal (where my account was at the time) a full, unopened mint roll of almost every month of quarters...
Unfortunately when I was attending college fifteen years ago, I spent nearly every one...
I sure don't miss those days of being broke, and having to spend my coin collection to eat.
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