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New Member
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Went to the store and got my change, I said I don't care what you have I`ll take it it's all good not Knowing there was a Loonie misprint from the Mint with my Change till I got home. My question is: I have personal never seen a misprint before and now seeing this one I am kinda curious as to want to know more about it and possible value so my Husband doesn't sell it for $5.00 or something stupid. Here are the pictures I was able to take of it, if anyone has any knowledge please do not hesitate to tell me maybe even possibly a price eve :) Thanks in advance for all help. Tiffany   |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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That is a Canadian Mint token, luckily you might get two bucks for it.
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New Member
 Canada
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Wow thanks john100 for the new information and to what my surprise is there not just worth the $2.00 you suggest for it, I did a search online and found out they sell from $22.00 - $60.00 so this is great and I just have to say Thankyou one more time and letting me know this is a token from the Mint and me Learning something new about coins.
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 Canada
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The mint issued tokens from 2004 to 2013 (the 2013 token did not have a date, but the new mint logo). They had various designs of coin reverses, 1c maple leaves, 5c polar bear, $2 polar bear and $1 loon. The older ones are more expensive. If your coin had any amount of circulation wear or marks, it is worth not more than $10.
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New Member
Canada
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This is getting better as the night goes on, as for what I have now learned in coins with people emailing me and here I have lots of new knowledge.
I wish to extend my Appreciation for helping me in my quest and wish to ask the Moderator of this Group to please Delete this post and I now consider it closed.
Sincerely;
Tiffany
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Moderator
Canada
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Why would we delete it? CCF topics are searchable in Google, and if we leave it here, anyone else in the future who finds a similar coin will be able to find, and read this thread...
"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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New Member
Canada
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My Apologies wasn't aware of this as, your right in Knowledge is the key to more answers in life for anyone as this page has helped me.
Just the same I wish to Extend my Gratefulness for this Site and Group for helping me.
Thankyou
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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What was the purpose of these tokens? I never knew these existed.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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These were primarily available as Mint Visitor Tokens. Visitors to the Ottawa and Winnipeg Mints could put money into a machine and watch the token get minted right there in front of them. I'm not sure if they still have these self-striking presses still set up.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The last time I was at the Winnipeg mint you could still make your won tokens there.
What is rather unique about htem, is that they do sometimes bear resomblance ot a circulation coin (on one side only), but never are the correct size/weight/shape of the coin they resemble - much like this "loonie".
I have never been interested in buying these myself.
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Posted 11/11/2017 9:18 pm
