2000 Canadian Cent Question Regarding The Beads On The Obverse.

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Jim0815 Pillar of the Community United States 5239 Posts	Posted 10/06/2020 4:39 pm I found this 2000 Canadian cent and not knowing a lot about Canadian coinage I have a question concerning far and near beads on the obverse of this cent. The beads are far from the rim and when I went to CoinsandCanada the picture of the obverse shows the beads to be close. I then went to Numista and looked at a 1999 Canadian cent and the beads were far. Am I just in the possession of a run of the mill 2000 Canadian cent? The fourth pic was borrowed from CoinsandCanada and the fifth pic was borrowed from Numista. Report this Post to the Staff

SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10458 Posts	Posted 10/06/2020 5:28 pm Optical illusion - look at the thickness of the rim. The difference is the strength of the collar die strike. Try measuring the distance to the beads from a known point inside the coin (e.g., the legend or a point on the Queen). "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 Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
Jim0815 Pillar of the Community United States 5239 Posts	Posted 10/06/2020 6:34 pm Ah, I understand exactly what you're meaning. It is an optical illusion. Most definitely the strength of the collar strike created the illusion. Thank you for the lesson learned! Edited by Jim0815 10/06/2020 6:35 pm Report this Post to the Staff
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