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SPP-Ottawa
Moderator
Canada
10433 Posts |
 Posted 01/27/2025 6:02 pm
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| You can scratch my name off the list, my wife said an envelope from the US had arrived. I cannot post photos, as I am travelling. Looking forward to opening the envelope when I get home in February. |
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| I Have This 2007 CDN Silver Colored Penny That Nobody Can Tell Me Anything About
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SPP-Ottawa
Moderator
Canada
10433 Posts |
Posted 01/08/2025 1:31 pm
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I'm a little bit late to the conversation but here is my take. If you immerse a copper-plated steel penny in an ammonia solution, the copper will dissolve but the steel won't. I've included pictures showing the results. This works much better than an acid bath which could affect the steel as well as the copper.
Impressive how it appears to have lustre even after the bath. I'd love one of those for teaching purposes, if you ever want to make another one. |
| | Forum: Canadian Variety and Error Coins |
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| 1996 Canadian Toonie Rare
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SPP-Ottawa
Moderator
Canada
10433 Posts |
Posted 01/07/2025 08:25 am
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Bucsfan - sounds like you should have a chat with Mike Marshall. Mike has been leading the fight against Canadian counterfeit coins since the mid-2000s.
I think you both would enjoy a conversation on this topic. |
| | Forum: Canadian Variety and Error Coins |
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| 1965 Canada Penny Error Obverse
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SPP-Ottawa
Moderator
Canada
10433 Posts |
Posted 01/03/2025 2:57 pm
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Not a Type 4, it is a Type 3 (Large Beads, Blunt 5). It is a strike through error.
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Effect on value?
Significant, a normal BU Type 3 1965 is worth about 25-cents (or less), but that is easily a CAN$20 error in my opinion. Possibly more, if two guys want to fight over it in an auction. |
| | Forum: Canadian Variety and Error Coins |
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| 1962 Cent, Incomplete Clip?
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SPP-Ottawa
Moderator
Canada
10433 Posts |
Posted 12/15/2024 11:24 pm
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Zimmy, considering that the US probably strikes an order of magnitude more coins in each denomination more than Canada, the probability is a lot higher for a greater population of errors.
There are some crazy cool errors I see in US coins, that I can only dream of for a Canadian counterpart. |
| | Forum: Canadian Variety and Error Coins |
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| 1962 Cent, Incomplete Clip?
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SPP-Ottawa
Moderator
Canada
10433 Posts |
Posted 10/01/2024 10:23 pm
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This is a legit error, the proper terminology is "struck on an incomplete punched planchet". There are lots of examples in this Canadian sub-forum.
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A vise job of some sort.
Frog, tell us you know nothing about Canadian planchet errors, without telling us you know nothing about Canadian planchet errors. Stay in your own lane. |
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