Why You Should Collect Newfoundland Coins.

Beautiful Coins.. bosox.


I think after looking at those, I'll throw mine out.

some very nice coins there ! I am a Nfld coin collector .. not much into the notes though I do have one of each produced .. I love collecting the coins and living in newfoundland right now its odd that it is easier to buy from other parts of the world than right here ... I just skimmed through this thread as I am at my office eating lunch : P ill input a little more later ..

but I do have a large newfoundland collection about 500 or 600 coins .. I just love them and the fact that it is rare to find coins like these minted in such low numbers in mint state .. most of my collection are pretty good coins but I still have a lot that I do not have yet ... << Staff Edit - Rules Violation >> I have just about every year of every denomination except the 1800's 50c pieces I have not completed those yet ...

fredor, you must have very deeeeeeeeep pockets to pick up allllllll the victoria halfes.............
good for you...

Hello Fredor,
Greetings!

I have seen your collection of Newfoundland coins on "coincommunity.com".
It was juz WOW , awesome.
It was nicely presented with very informative posts on Newfoundland coinage.

I have come across many such dedicated / Theme base collections but yours fredor, was nicely collected with a good vision.

Hope to see you many such good collections. Keep it Up!

Best Regards,
INR
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those are fantastic! Thanks for sharing and thanks for the encouragement inr!

Newfoundland made the decision to introduce its own decimal coinage in 1863, but the first coins were not issued until 1865, with 1, 5, 10 and 20 cent pieces, as well as $2.00 gold pieces being issued that year. 50 cent coins followed in 1870, with 100 cents equal to a Spanish 8 real. The coins were all struck in England until 1913, sometimes at Royal Mint London without a mint mark, and sometimes at the Heaton mint with a small H mint mark. No coins were made from 1914 to 1916, and when coinage resumed in 1917 many of the coins were then minted at the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa with with a small C mint mark on them.
This is an extensive series of coins, with most issues having relatively low mintage. The pre-1920 coins circulated extensively, and many of the examples we see are either very worn, damages, or both. Finding nice attractive circulated specimens is often difficult, and mint state examples very difficult (nearly impossible for some dates). In spite of this, the prices can often be very reasonable relative to their scarcity when one does find them.
The last Newfoundland coins were struck in 1947 (1, 5 and 10 cent pieces) more than a year before Newfoundland joined Canadian Confederation to become Canada's 10th Province. The coins largely stopped circulating after Newfoundland joined with Canada in 1949, and most Newfoundland coins newer than 1940 are today found with very little wear on them.

fredor, you did drum up interest in these coins. Before this thread I knew almost nothing about Newfoundland coins, and these posts educated me more than anywhere else. Wikipedia has a few pages on Newfoundland coins which helped also.

The one cent coins should be easy to collect. I've made one of my lists of those to get.

Large cents

_1865 (240,000)
_1872H (200,000)
_1873 (200,000)
_1876H (200,000)
_1880 (400,000)
_1885 (40,000)
_1888 (400,000)
_1890 (50,000)
_1894 (200,000)
_1896 (200,000)
_1904H (100,000)
_1907 (200,000)
_1909 (300,000)
_1913 (400,000)
_1917C ( 702,350)
_1919C (300,000)
_1920C (302,184)
_1929 (300,000)
_1936 (300,000)

Small cents

_1938 (500,000)
_1940 (300,000)
_1941C ( 827,662)
_1942 (1,996,889)
_1943C (1,239,776)
_1944C (1,328,776)
_1947C (313,773)

I'm just going to stick with the one cent coins as they appear affordable. And as others have said, they're underrated and as more take interest in this series the prices will rise. I've already received a couple so I'm on my way. Thanks for introducing me to these.

Ken

Fredor Great thread no hope for me down in Carolina to pick up many of these
but I was thinking if there is no Book on this subject it may be your calling.
something to think about