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You are missing a known, published die clash for the dollars. The 1975 nickel dollar (both business strike and PL strike, PL is much more common). This is the "Island Lightening" clash, Charlton Number CH# 1975 Rev-003 (see 60th Edition of Charlton Standard of Canadian Coins, variety section in back).
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Ah, thanks for the info, haven't seen that edition of Charlton, so hadn't seen it. I just saw in your profile that you're interested in nickel dollars, as far as you know, are there other years with clashes beside 1968, 1974 and 1975?
Also, your name mentioning Ottawa, are you part of OCC? Do you go to their meetings sometimes?
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I am a member of the OCC, and attend the meetings regularly. I gave the presentation this past September, "Geology of Canadian Coins".
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Ah, I unfortunately missed the meeting for the past few months, I intend to be there next monday though, maybe I can show some of my clashes for "show and tell".
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The 64th Edition of Charlton Standard shows pictures of silver 5 cent die clashes on 1870, 1871, 1872, 1874, 1875, 1880, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1888, 1892, 1893, 1894 and 1897 but they are not listed as die clashes. 1881 is confirmed on another website and I suspect each Victorian year can have a die clash for the 5 cents.
I did a quick trip to my local coin shop and picked up three 1917 1c die clashes, a 1959 and 1962 50c die clashes.
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nybird, I like the look of that bead clash, think I'll have to look for one of those for my collection.
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To add to the George VI 50ct Die Clashes... I have found either Obverse or Reverse Die Clashes in all years except 1937, 1947ML and 1948. There are many for the 1943 through 1946 years which speaks to the problems with quality that the Mint had through the War Years when demand for the 50ct coins rose by a factor of 10.
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pginrh, will you be coming by the Brampton Coin Show next Sunday (Dec 4th), I have been busy reviewing what you gave me at the previous show, and should be able to have it back to you - with my edits and suggestions. R.
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SPP-Ottawa, I am going to make every effort to be there.... Your comments on this forum have started me collecting the Nickel Dollar series with Varieties, so I will hopefully be able to find some there (the George VI 50ct searches had only yielded one new 1944 repunch over the last year and it was getting kind of dull as I found I was looking at the same coins over and over). Looking forward to your suggestions.
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11/27/2011 2:54 pm
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Well, if you are venturing down that road, be sure to pick up the 60th Edition of the Charlton Catalogue, with the dollar varieties in the back. That is a good start, and I will have varieties with me for the show as well... The good news is that most varieties exist, and are easily and cheaply available, in business strike, proof-like and specimen strikes. 1974 is a heck of a year, and Ken Potter's website is a good place to start. http://koinpro.tripod.com/Articles/...llarVars.htm"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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Very impressive (no pun intended)!
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