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Pillar of the Community
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I am just starting out with Canadian coins. I am putting a small cent set together. Where are (if any), the mint marks on all denominations? Any varieties? Any thing else I should know?
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Canada
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It is a very simple set. There are pretty much only 4 key coins. 22, 23, 24, and 25. And the rest only get expensive in the higher grades. There are some varieties but nothing really worth hunting down. Just silly little things like pointed 5's and blunt 5's, large beads and small beads.
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Canada
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Don't forget to mention the 1955 with No Shoulder Fold... Very rare, and very expensive.
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 Australia
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Canada only has one mint, so modern Canadian coins either don't have a mintmark or have only one mintmark, the RCM logo. Some very modern coins have "composition marks", a "P" for plated steel, that looks like a US-style mintmark. 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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Canada has two mints. One mint (Ottawa) typically does specialty coins while the second mint (Winnipeg) typically does circulation coins. Typical mint marks are blank ( no mint mark for older coins), a P which started around the year 2000 and the RCM logo which started around 2006. The denominations that the various marks appear vary by a year in most cases. Coins dated 1999 with a P mint mark were created as test coins to get the weight of the coin for testing coin accepting machines. I believe they're worth a bit if you find one since they were never ment for circulation. There are some very rare occasions where Winnipeg mint has done coin sets and those coins have accidently been spent and ended up circulating for whatever reason so there are W and WP mint marks out there but you most likely won't find any unless you're buying sets or watching ebay for them to show. In 2003 the Queen's portrait changed on the coins. In most cases you will find two versions of each 2003 coin, one with the old portrait and one with the new portrait. In cases with pennies you'll find 4 different, with and without a mint mark and different portraits for each... The list goes on and on... :) Edited by tiker
11/12/2009 8:58 pm
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Canada
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Don't forget the 1954 No Shoulder Fold. In all but the very highest grades is is more expensive then the 1955 NSF. Does anyone have a total population estimate for the 1954 and 1955 NSF cents?
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Canada
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Check this link. It's a price list, but all of the different years are mentioned. As you know, small cents were first issued in 1920. Monarchs represented are George V, George VI, and Elizabeth II, the latter having had four different effigies ("Young Head", "Machin Head", "Diadem Head" and "Uncrowned Head"). As to mint marks, what has been mentioned above is right -- there aren't any. A small "P" appears under the Queen's head starting in 1999, but it stands for "Plated Steel" the composition of the coin. A "W" for also appears on some set coins not intended for circulation. The Mint's Logo started to appear in 2006, but it's on all coins, so doesn't really mean anything. http://coinsandcanada.com/coins-prices.php |
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AAHHHH! THE '55NSF. AFTER 40 yrs. of looking, acquired one in a small hoard of entirely cleaned stuff. Complete runs of cents, nickles, dimes and most silver dollars. I swear, if this woman could get to the mint sets, she may have. Unfortunatly, the '55 was in this state also. I'll show it off when I get new lens. Worse off I was left with maybe 1200 shiny blinders, that would do best by a yn.
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Canada
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Steve, the 1954 NSF was only in PL sets, so I don't know if it really "counts". As has been said before, it's a "money" coin - expensive but easily found for sale at pretty much any time.
The 1955 I consider much more of an interesting scarcity. I watched many VG to VF level coins come and go, but had to be very patient to finally get one better than VF. I consider the 1955 NSF exceptionally under priced, but it doesn't really show because circulated EF and AU coins come up for sale so infrequently.
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Canada
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for how rare it is the 1955NSF is definitely underpriced. I had the opportunity to get one a while back and regretted it ever since
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Canada
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To date ICCS has certified only 71 coins in EF-40 or better, and 316 in grades of VF-30 or lower. For comparison, the 1926 "far 6" five cent has 142 coins in EF or better, and 947 coins in VF-30 or lower.
The 1948 dollar? 895 in mint state grades alone...
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Posted 11/12/2009 8:23 pm
