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| Canadian Looking For US Coin Show Recommendations!
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Altaira
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Canada
2478 Posts |
 Posted 01/07/2025 3:18 pm
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No exact plans yet on where and when I'd be going, it's just going to be sometime later in the year. But it would be very nice to have it coincide with some show for the experience.
Yeah, the exchange rate is going to kill me if I'm buying anything substantial. I'll need to research the customs stuff a bit - didn't think of that.
If looking purely at distance, I'm relatively close to Buffalo, NY. Someone that I met at a coin show up here invited me to go to one of the BNA shows. Their monthly show has 50 tables, not as large as multi-day shows... But whoa, a monthly, not a yearly coin show of that size?
jbuck - for a Canadian, those shows are large! I have a conflict with the January 31 show, and I don't know yet if I have a conflict with the other, but I'll write it down for now. |
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| Canadian Looking For US Coin Show Recommendations!
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Altaira
Pillar of the Community
Canada
2478 Posts |
Posted 12/28/2024 2:27 pm
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Canadian here planning on going to the US sometime in 2025, and looking for coin show recommendations. I'm looking for new experiences outside Canada--apparently what we call big shows here (50 dealers), Americans would consider small!
Anywhere in the US, unless they are very small or very local shows. Preferably shows where there would potentially be some Canadian goodies for me to shop for. But if not, I can still meet new people, attend talks, see cool stuff I won't ever see here.
I've seen coinzip.com and coinshows.com mentioned for show listings. Are they complete? If not, are there any other websites that aggregate coin shows?
Thanks! |
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| 1963 5c Double Struck
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Altaira
Pillar of the Community
Canada
2478 Posts |
Posted 04/23/2024 3:46 pm
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| I agree with PMD. "Struck" with counterfeit soft dies afterwards. A true double strike will result in a sharper second strike while flattening details of the first strike. |
| | Forum: Canadian Variety and Error Coins |
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| Where Did The Older Plated Steel Coins Go?
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Altaira
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Canada
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Posted 10/09/2023 11:55 pm
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Sorting through coins I'd hoarded in 2013 and realising that Canadian circulation coins from the 2000s and 2010s (plated steel, so these should not be ARP-ed) are not something I tend to find in my change anymore. Typically the coins I get in change now are brand new last year or two's coins, no earlier. Thoughts? Did the Mint recover them too?
Still dumping out that mountain of circulated 2002 coins. No idea why I hoarded them back then... why on earth would I need more than one each? |
| | Forum: Canadian Coins and Colonial Tokens |
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| What Exactly Is The "Steel" In Modern Canadian Circulation Coins?
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Altaira
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Canada
2478 Posts |
Posted 10/09/2023 11:48 pm
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EM signatures:
There used to be a promotional brochure pdf on the Mint's website ages ago (10-ish years?) about how the multi-ply process plating is applied and how it does in a vending machine, though it's definitely not discussed in-depth. It's not there on the Mint's website anymore, but I found an archived version on archive.org (from the old coinscan/CNPI website, but that's been taken over by a crypto website today). I can't get the link to work here because CCF separates it into two parts that don't work, so I added spaces. Copy this entire chunk below and delete the spaces in between.
https://web.archive.org/ web/20180705115745/ http://www.coinscan.com/ technical/mintreports/ MRC115003M_Brochure_Multiply_En_Clientplating.pdf
For what it's worth, I also found something on Google Patents about MPPS coins. It's "abandoned", whatever that means. You can Ctrl + F for "steel". "EMS", etc.
https://patents.google.com/patent/U...0119865A1/en
There's a related patent owned by "Sherritt Gordon Mines Limited" below... that must have something to do with the Sherritt Mint right? Do they still exist? Probably need a new topic to go into this. |
| | Forum: Canadian Coins and Colonial Tokens |
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| 1964 D Jefferson Nickel Possible Clipped Planchet?
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Altaira
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Canada
2478 Posts |
Posted 09/17/2022 2:16 pm
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This looks genuine to me. The way the metal flows and fades towards the clip, especially on the obverse, is quite telling. The "shearing" texture seen on only half the edge seems quite typical too. More close-up pictures of the rim there (not the edge) would be good to confirm.
The Blakesley effect is a good diagnostic to start on, but it isn't always present in very small (or very large) clips. Plus, the curvature of clips can distort so that it won't always match the curvature of the coin (though this is more true of large clips).
Should we have Mike Diamond take a look at this one? |
| | Forum: US Modern Variety and Error Coins |
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| Canada 1891 Large Cent Variety Identification
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Altaira
Pillar of the Community
Canada
2478 Posts |
Posted 09/16/2022 9:24 pm
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Do things typically sell for that far below Trends, even directly to a collector? Is it only because this is a low grade coin?
Or is this a recent trend following the pandemic because everyone went and sold?
It's been almost three years since I last looked at coins and I've forgotten so much. |
| | Forum: Canadian Coins and Colonial Tokens |
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| Three Canada 1944 V Nickels - Grade
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Altaira
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Canada
2478 Posts |
Posted 09/16/2022 6:53 pm
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I suppose I shouldn't have hoped for much when these have been through a Coinstar and then shoved into a bag with 100 other bigger coins.
Still, I didn't expect #1 to hit 65 with that many nicks.
#2 suffers from a poor strike, and I wasn't sure #3 would even be MS considering the rub on the obverse although the fields look pretty clean. |
| | Forum: Canadian Coin Grading |
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| Newfoundland 1936 Large Cent Grade
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Altaira
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Canada
2478 Posts |
Posted 09/16/2022 6:45 pm
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Thanks for the confirmation. I need to actually go out and look at things again one of these days... I've forgotten so much.
Bad wording on my part there. I'm still fully aware of the difference between mint luster and cleaned/polished coins. |
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