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PCGS - The Canadian silver dollar series has long been a top draw for collectors around the world. Minted en masse for circulation from 1935 through 1967, these coins carry an 80% silver composition and are just a couple millimeters smaller in diameter than a typical United States silver dollar, at 36.06 for the Canadian Dollar versus 38.1 millimeters for U.S. silver dollars. 
1967 Canada Dollar, PR68DCAMThe circulating Canadian Dollars of the mid-20th century feature an array of handsome designs, with the obverses of that period fielding four different likenesses of the three successive British monarchs of the day. These include King George V, King George VI, and Queen Elizabeth II, the latter of whom received two different obverse treatments on the circulating dollars - one depicting her shortly after her 1953 coronation at the age of 26 and the other showing her in 1965 around the age of 39. This second design of Queen Elizabeth II, by Arnold Machin, anchors the obverse of the 1967 Canadian Dollar. The coin honors the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, which saw the unification of Canada's provinces into a single nation known as the Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867. The Canadian Confederation Centennial was, akin to the United States Bicentennial of 1976, a monumental event warranting special commemorative designs on the reverse of all circulating Canadian coinage, including the silver dollar. The Canadian Dollar ordinarily carried a reverse design depicting a Canadian voyageur in a canoe with a Native American navigating crisp waters under the glowing Northern Lights. The quintessentially Canadian design, debuting with the circulating silver dollar in 1935, had only been superseded a few times over the run of the silver series by other commemorative designs. It relinquished its spot on the reverse once more in 1967 on what became the final circulating Canadian silver dollar; this time it was replaced with a design by Alex Colville of a flying goose - one of several animals featured on the native wildlife-themed reverses of the Confederation Centennial Commemorative coins. Read the Entire Article
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Pillar of the Community
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Yet more misinformation from CCFPress Quote:
... four different likenesses of the three successive British monarchs of the day. These include King George V, King George VI, and Queen Elizabeth II, Absolutely false, there were two very different George V portraits, one George VI portrait and two Elizabeth portraits. I can't read any further. "Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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12/14/2020 7:27 pm
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Forum Dad
United States
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Write PCGS a letter, see if I care.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@ DBM Thanks for the update...did you hear back from PCGS?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Actually there are TWO George VI obverses for SDs
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
9664 Posts |
At the top of every page it says "Knowledge is the key to collector success"
Rings kind of hollow given that these misinformative and misleading articles are presented to us by CCF.
Doesn't matter that they come from PCGS or other sources, they appear to have the approval of CCF.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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"Actually there are TWO George VI obverses for SDs"
True but only one likeness, or portrait.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Forum Dad
United States
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At the top of every page it says "Knowledge is the key to collector success"
Rings kind of hollow given that these misinformative and misleading articles are presented to us by CCF.
Doesn't matter that they come from PCGS or other sources, they appear to have the approval of CCF. I'm not fact checking every single thing from other sources. Dozens are posted every day. I don't have the time, do you? If you want to correct them, fine. But there's no need to be so nasty about it. Even when you send notes to staff about honest mistakes you're nasty about it half the time. It's growing old and tiresome. Note JHax corrected us in the 20 cent topic and was very polite about and it still got the job done.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Overall I find these informative and enjoy reading them.  |
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New Member
United States
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GEEZ. misinformation and misleading? That is pretty aggressive. I thought it was very Informative. Unless they lied about Mintages or error coins Not sure what is so misleading?
I would like to get my hands on the PROOF versions of this 1967 goose. I have some proof/like and a couple still in the packaging but I want to get a proof still.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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PCGS is not always correct in what they write about Canadian coins.
Mostly they are only "half right".... if that.
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I would like to get my hands on the PROOF versions of this 1967 goose You won't. They don't exist. The highest quality are specimen strikes, but, if you find one struck by brand new dies, it will have a nice cameo to it.
"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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SPP-Ottawa.. Thank you. It's been very confusing if they even made a proof version of this coin. So Proof/like has been the best I can find. I'm still not familiar what the difference is between proof/like and proof. I feel like Proof/like is a made up term. I have seen this coin on ebay advertised as Proof for around $70, I didn't want to spend that money. I'm not sure what to think of that. |
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The 1967 coins were struck as (from lowest to highest quality):
Business (circulation) strikes
Proof-like strikes (issued in pliofilm plastic sets)
Specimen strikes (issued in red and black boxes, the black box had the $20 gold coin in it)
PCGS would sometimes grade the specimen strikes with strong cameos on them, as "proof" (PR), to add to the confusion.
In Canadian coins, proof strikes are struck twice with special dies to obtain the deep cameo effect (mirror fields, frosted devices). That started in 1981.
"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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SPP-Ottawa, Again thank you. To add to the confusion. I'm noticing this coin from 2017? in a proof? 99.99 silver. This is the ebay listing #. 193543004233I think I may need to add this one to the flock. Not sure I'm ready to pull the trigger at $75 though. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Miguel, the one you are looking at is a commemorative from 2017, its the 150th anniversary of the creation of Canada. the coin is not a circulation coin, it is NCLT 99.999 pure silver. The RCM released in 2017 a line of pure silver coins recreating the animal series from 1967. |
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