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I'm being told it is a Half Cent Canadian coin. Any help on ID or value?  Edited by Scooby Due
04/25/2010 4:20 pm
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Rest in Peace
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Prince Edward Island c. 1840 token.
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Thanks for the reply. Does it have any value?
EDIT: Let me re-phrase, of course it has value. Is it worth $100?
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04/25/2010 5:15 pm
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I have one in F12 I paid 50 cents for. It's a Breton #999, minted around 1815 worth maybe 2 bucks in that condition.
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I did some research while waiting for a response and all I found was $5-20 depending on condition. I read that there were some out there that worth a little more, and I was wondering if this could be one of them. From what I've seen and read - it's not. But, then again, I didn't see anything to tell me what distinguished the rare ones from the common ones.
When I told the guy he had a $10 coin that he was trying to sell me for $100, he was pretty offended. But, then again, so was I. He told me I needed to get "another book", but I read it from 3 independent websites.
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I am having trouble finding the right markers and things to look for. There are about 54 varieties of these tokens- Br 997 or PE-10. {Prince Edward Island, also circulated in Lower Canada (Quebec)}. The ampersand has 4 varieties-the round knob, cut-knob, which hangs down to the right, bar knob, and club knob. There can be half a H at the bottom right line of the water, and possibly a H incuse in the big wave at bottom right. The flag is definately a Union Jack ( some have the stars an bars), and it is nicely horizontal. There are minor varieties in the ropes, size of yards. Yours has beading around the rim. I cannot match the wave pattern to any of the varieties that I have illustrated in the Canadian Colonial tokens book, possibly because of wear or lighting. They were issued from 1829 to about 1835. The price runs from $2 to about $4800, depending on the variety more than the condition. Several varieties ar scarce, as a minimum. If you can get a better picture, I would be glad to try again. I will also look for another catalogue which may illustrate all the varieties better than the CCT book does.
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coinsnpaper, I really appreciate your effort, but I'm afraid these are all of the pictures I'm going to get.
I e-mailed him and told him everything I read indicated that the coin was worth $5-20, but if he could tell me what it was that made this coin uncommon, then I would be interested. He e-mailed back and told me to get "another book", that this coin was going for $100-$300, IF you can find them. So, I guess I offended him beyond repair.
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Sounds like he is a jerk.
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Maybe. I wasn't trying to offend him. I told him I read that some of them were scarce, I just needed him to justify to me that this was one of them. Maybe he was mislead and overpaid for it and don't know it.
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