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Pillar of the Community
United States
4870 Posts |
In those oval board sets these come it, are they PL? I ask because I know you can buy the boards empty so you can insert your own coins and most ebay auctions don't specify if they're coins they put in there from rolls or if they are PL. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
899 Posts |
nds76, the originals are all proof like, I have 2 each of the 1999 and 2000 and 1 of the 1992 and all quarters are bright and shiny PL
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
4870 Posts |
d23, what sort of holder board does the 1992 PL quarters come in? Doesn't that also come with a loonie?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
899 Posts |
Just the 25 cent pieces, no loonie, here's a picture...  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1931 Posts |
I have a different set. I bought the board and put in a PL quarters and dollar myself VERY carefully. lol On the back it has all the information about each coin. (sorry if pic is dark, it was hard to get the image without glare of the coins.)  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4870 Posts |
Great pics everyone! I have been trying to locate the 1992 set in PL for some time now.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1931 Posts |
it can be hard to find because the PL coins should gather a higher value, but people dont want to pay that actual value for the coins. I have more than one of these sets which isn't necessary but selling is impossible if you expect to recoup the money spent.
kind of a catch 22 I think. I do know that the issue price for the uncirculated set on the oval board was 17.95 or something like that but when you compare those coins to PL coins there is a huge difference in my opinion.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4870 Posts |
The PL coins are just stunning. All I have had for 1992 were the business strike versions because they were cheaper.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
617 Posts |
I was in a coin shop in my area ( the only coin shop in my area) a while back and noticed a pile of the oval 1999 (or was it 2000?) sets selling for 19.99 each . however the coins in the sets were very obviously well circulated. Looked like the good coins were replaced by the not so good ones and probably sold separately. sort of a sneaky thing to do.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
4227 Posts |
I think the sterling silver 1992s are a nice affordable price now and they are high quality.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
14454 Posts |
when you say PL do you mean Proof coins? or MS coins that have PL fields? with US coins there is a big difference but I don't know a thing about Canadian coins |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4870 Posts |
Proof-Like and Proofs are completely different. PL coins come from the mint sets. Basically they are the counterpart of the US mint set, only flashier.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1082 Posts |
Actually, those round boards were available almost everywhere for like a buck each. Most people filled them from circulation coins. I remember that happening for all three years ('92, '99, '00).
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Valued Member
United States
206 Posts |
i have several sets of the 1999/2000 oval boards issued complete from the mint. I also have several of the 125th anniversary sets. if the oval comes in the box from the mint, they should be PL. if it's a loose board, then they are most likely circulated coins. the 50 cent sets are nice too  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1082 Posts |
I dropped into a Royal Bank the other day to see if they had any rolls worth buying (I bank at CIBC and TD), and was astounded to find that they had big piles of blank boards for the Vancouver Olympic coins, for the taking, courtesy of the Royal Bank and the RCM. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4870 Posts |
I have the 99/00 set on order from Colonial Acres.
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Posted 08/26/2009 6:17 pm
