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| Group of Florida Metal Detected Canadian Dimes and Quarters. |
I've been talking about the advisability of inspecting foreign coins as well as US coin finds. There is always the possibility of valuable errors and varieties being found, no matter what country the coin comes from.
Yesterday I showed a couple silver Canadian coin finds. Above is a group of metal detected clad Canadian dimes and quarters.
And below is a group of Canadian pennies.
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Group of Florida Metal Detected Canadian Pennies.
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The interesting thing about Canadian pennies is that they haven't been produced since 2012 and people were asked to return their pennies to financial institutions. Without pennies payments are rounded to the nearest five cents. See Canada's penny withdrawal: All you need to know | CBC News
The finds in the group shown above range from 1943 to 1987. I have some older Canadian cent coins, including a large cent.
Here is the oldest of this group.
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| 1943 Canadian One Cent. |
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| 1943 Canadian Cent. |
These two are only worth a few cents.
I found a good site showing a number of error and variety pennies including those of the 1950s and 1960s.
Below is an Elizabeth II 1955 Canadian One Cent Coin.
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| 1955 Canadian Penny Find. |
And here is the newest Canadian once-cent coin from the group. Notice the edge which is angled instead of round.
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| 1987 One-Cent Canadian Coin. |
The following table gives the changing composition of the recent one-cent Canadian coins.
I'll have to inspect my Canadian pennies for any interesting errors or varieties. I just haven't done that yet, but plan to do that soon.
Maybe I'll get a Whitman folder for these coins. Being discontinued, Canadian small cents would make a nice collection.
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| Whitman Coin Folder. |
I like these coin folders. They make it easy to keep track of a collection and easily upgrade the collection with better examples as you get them.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov. |
Francine made landfall and there are a couple more areas to watch in the Atlantic basin.
New Orleans has a lot of interesting history and had a very interesting and complex culture. I've read several books on old New Orleans, including the The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life, a well as other books by George Washinton Cable, who wrote historical novels about culture and race relations around the beginning of the 19th Century. Highly recommended for understanding the history and culture of old New Orleans. If you read Cable, you'll get a glimpse into a society very different from today's. Do you know what a quadroon is? You'll find out. The one drop rule didn't hold then.
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Fort Pierce Area Surf Prediction
Source: Surfguru.com. |
Not any big surf yet.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
