2008 Canada Ten Cents

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Almost a month without a Canadian find. Well that drought is over with this shiny little dime. It is one of the few Canadian dimes I need to complete a nearly sixty year series of dimes. From 1955 to 2008 I have found all but the 1999 Canadian dime just from my change. Granted I do not have every variety or mint but I am just counting each year in this case.

Darker image taken in shadow.

Bright image taken at an angle.

The pictures could have been better but lately I have found nothing but bad lighting or little time to devote to setting up the tripod. So the first image is too dark so I tilted the coin and got the shiny-newness that I wanted to show off.

Here's the stats...

Type/Country: 10 Cents / Canada
Year: 2008
Mintage: 467,495,000
Metal: 92% Steel, 5.5% Copper, and 2.5% Nickel
Value: $0.10 in Extra-Fine

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1962 Canada Cent

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Last of trio of Canadian cents found all at once. Started with a 2011 then 1978 finally 1962 that is a 49 year span of Canadian goodness. As usual half way through the year and Canadian finds are dominating all other foreign coins.

Tell me this does not look like the photos by Moyra Davey.

Should have saved this for Canada Day on July 1 but that is still a bit far.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 1962
Mintage: 227,244,069
Metal: 98% Copper, 0.5% Tin, 1.5% Zinc
Value: $0.03 in AG

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1978 Canada Cent

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This one has appeared before but why not showcase its mundane status. Plus I really have nothing else cool this week.

 

Type/Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 1978
Mintage: 911,170,647
Metal: 98% Copper, 0.5% Tin, and 1.5% Zinc
Value: $0.02 in F

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2011 Canada Cent, Zinc

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This was a relatively quick find. Almost halfway in to 2011 and I find a 2011 Canadian cent. It was on my short list of Canadian cents that I am missing along with 2008, 2003, 1990, and 1958.

 

From what I gathered all 2011 cents from Canada are copper-plated zinc unlike previous years when they also issued copper-plated steel varieties. If this changes I will update below.

Here's the stats...

Type/Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 2011 RCM Logo
Mintage: Not yet known.
Metal: Copper Plated Zinc
Value: $0.01 in F

Update: Anonymous said... I just found a 2011 canadian cent that is made of the steel composite. on 6:03 PM, August 01, 2011 
That is cool, since the steel ones stick to magnets it's easy to identify. I guess they are going to continue the different core metal issues.

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1995 Canada Nickel

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Apparently this coin want its own 15 minutes in the spotlight since I keep finding it every few months. Yes I have posted about it before but here it is on its own.

 

Done. Now let me find something cool.


Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 5 Cents / Canada
Year: 1995
Mintage:78,780,000
Metal: 75% Copper, 25% Nickel
Value: $0.05 in Fine

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1998 Canada Ten Cents

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Coins can be icky. Sure people here all the stories about germs on notes and bills. The fact that people touch money will always make it a breeding ground for nastiness. That said it is all relatively harmless especially if you have access to running water. Oddly enough silver has some antibacterial properties so older coins were marginally safer. Plastic tends to be very germ friendly so the future of money just gets dirtier.

This Canadian dime was blotchy and I refuse to think about what made it so blotchy.

 

Found a perfect background for this coin.

Here's the stats...

Type/Country: 10 Cents / Canada
Year: 1998
Mintage: 203,514,000
Metal: 100% Nickel
Value: $0.10 (This one is stained)


I seriously need to take a day trip to Canada and return the favor.

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Repeating is OK

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I thought about giving these coins their own individual posts but I have found them before and they are so common that it seemed repetitive.

There seems to be a sudden drop off in interesting finds.

 

Running out of finds so maybe it wasn't a good idea to put these two together. Oh well I will think of something if that day ever comes. Happy coin hunting to all, maybe little behind for the rest of us.

Type / Country: 5 Cents / United States
Year: 1955-D
Metal: 75% copper 25% nickel
Mintage: 74,464,100
Value: G-4 $0.05

Type / Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 2005
Mintage: 759,658,000
Metal: Bronze-Plated Zinc
Value: $0.02 in XF

It is kind of annoying when a coin as old as the 1982 Cayman Islands cent still has no official mintage listed.

Sidenote: Blogger has been experiences some outages so please be patient if there some issues.

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The Other 2003-P Canada Dime

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Two 2003-P Canadian dimes were made and one 2003-WP (not for circulation). For the 2003-P the difference is the Queen's portrait. Every couple of decades Queen Elizabeth II has her official image updated. When the update occurs everything that uses her official portrait must change to the new image. Granted it gives an opportunity for some to dump the Queen altogether.

This dime has the older portrait which featured the middle aged Queen. This portrait was first used in 1990 and the update with the senior Queen was introduced in 2003. The update overlaps so different obverses can be seen on the same year.

 

 

Here is the newer version of the Queen I found it August of 2010.

Value wise there is no difference as I still believe they were made in even quantities.

Oooh imagine if the Queen lives for another twenty years. What would the next portrait look like?

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 10 Cents / Canada
Year: 2003-P Newer Queen effigy, old portrait
Mintage: 163,684,000 (both types included)
Metal: 92% Steel, 5.5% Copper, 2.5% Nickel
Value: $0.10

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2007 Curling Quarter Canada

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Issued February 23, 2007 this 2010 Vancouver Olympic commemorative quarter was the first of ten that were made for circulation. Of course this is Canada so many more were made that were painted and enameled and in silver and etc...

Three years later during the winter Olympics Canada earned gold and silver medals in the men's and women's curling competition.

 

On the reverses is a woman curling with the stone and broom. The GG is for Glen Green the designer of the back of all the Olympic quarters.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 25 Cents / Canada
Year: 2007 Olympic Logo
Mintage: 22,400,000
Metal: 94% Steel, 3.8% Copper, 2.2% Nickel
Value: $0.25

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1993 Canada Nickel

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Not much to say about an eighteen year old Canadian nickel. It's not legal over here.

Hmmm. I seem to be a bit underwhelmed. I will blame the cold weather. Or maybe the whole Canada political drama, something about overthrowing the government. Not quite sure.

 

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 5 Cents / Canada
Year: 1993
Mintage: 86,877,000
Metal: 75% Copper, 25% Nickel
Value: $0.06 in Fine  


Ooh, maybe this is interesting. Most older Canadian coins have a higher metal value than face value.

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1991 Canada Cent

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Three months into 2011 and I have yet to find any foreign coins. Of course plenty of Canadians but nothing from a country that is more than a bus ride away. This is odd since one third of my finds are foreign coins.

Possible lack of coins from far off lands....

• Continuing economic troubles
• Snowy winter made NY travel tough
• Devaluation of the dollar
• Metal hoarders
• More access to the web

The last item on the list is interesting if you think about it. Twenty years ago if you found a Morocco Dirham you may look at it and think you lost out on American money. Maybe you would hold on to it and a few months later check the internet. Soon you would notice how this coin is just fraction of the value its U.S. counter part. Maybe you already thought this and just threw it back into circulation.

Today you get it and whip out that smartphone and get currency values, eBay values, and blogger/forum opinions. You then notice that everything has some value and choose to put it aside hoping to become rich in the near future. This coupled with the other things on the above list distorts the reality of the coin market.

The problem is that finding a $3.00 coin does not mean you have pizza money in your pocket. Selling, shipping, and fees makes only the most skilled able to turn a profit. That truth falls aside as more people looking to get rich quick and hoard coins.

Back to my find...

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 1991
Mintage: 831,010,000
Metal: 98% Copper, 0.5% Tin, 1.5% Zinc
Value: $0.02

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1951 Canada Cent

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First find of 2011 back on January 25 was yet another Canadian cent. Five of the past six years my first coin find has been a cent from Canada.

This coin is not particularly special but it does has have King George on it which seems to confuse many young Canadians. I have received dozens of questions about the legitimacy of these coins. About twenty hours ago I got this question...

I have a 1952 penny with GEORGIVS VI DEI GRATIA REX on it instead of the queen is it worth anything? 

 I responded...

 About $0.05

The way the question (and similar) is phrased is more about where is my Queen and who was this King. Well kids he was the Queen's daddy and royal lineage dictates that when royalty dies the next in line for the throne gets replaced on coins as soon as possible. King George died February 6, 1952 and the Queen did not start appearing on coins until 1953.

 

 
Here's the stats...

Type/Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 1951
Mintage: 80,430,379 
Metal: 98% Copper, 0.5% Tin, 1.5% Zinc
Value: $0.05 in Good (although this has some verdigris damage)

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2010 Canadian Quarter

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Canada has shiny quarters. Their circulating coins are considered proof-like since they reflect like a mirror. When you get them close to year of issue they stay shiny. Of course once in circulation they scratches are more noticeable.

Still I find it fascinating that I can get one of their seldom seen 2010 quarters before one from my own country. I have even seen a 2011 Canada quarter out in circulation. Also due to the Winter Olympics of 2010 you see more hockey/sports quarters than caribou quarters.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 25 Cents / Canada
Year: 2010 RCM Logo
Mintage: Not yet known.
Metal: 94% Steel, 3.8% Copper, 2.2% Nickel
Value: $0.25

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1948 Canada Cent (Var. 2)

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Finally a Canadian cent with a little more of a story. Varieties among Canadian cents often involves the denticles. Although Firefox's spellchecker thinks denticles is not a real word it is a numismatic term. It refers to the tooth-like design elements that you see in on the inside if rim of  certain coins. They kind of look like fence posts to me but they already have a name so I will not change it.

Denticles are very small and are often overlooked. They are a part of the original design and should always be in the same place relative to the entire design. When they are not it is because the design of coin was slightly modified and that is a variety, sometimes due to low and high relief changes, sometimes due to changing the master die or matrix.

That is what happened with this coin it has three varieties all involving the denticles.

Sure it looks like any other old Canadian cent with King Geroge VI on front and the maple leafs on the back. Plus there is a quit a bit of verdigris all over the coin.

What to look for in this year, and maybe in every other, is the size of denticles and where the last A in GRATIA points.

Just because I am familiar with denticle size I know these are the large variety, but if they were small they would look more like spikes then teeth.

Then the A. It should either point to a denticle or point in between one. This is where photo software can help. After blowing up the image you can then draw a straight line from the center of the A and not strain your eyes to see where it points.

Yup, turns out mine is the least valuable the 1948 "A" points to large denticle, this is the second listed I call it Variety 2.

Variety 1 is the "A" points to small denticle. Worth the most, five times normal.
Variety 3 is the "A" points between large denticle. Worth slightly more than Var. 2.

Type/Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 1948 Var. 2
Mintage: 25,767,779 includes all varieties
Metal: 98% Copper, 0.5% Tin, 1.5% Zinc
Value: $0.05 in G

Have not discovered anything new this year, still going through December finds.

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Can, Can, Can

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A trio of Canadian cents that I have found before and talked about before.
So...
Um...have you heard a bunch of brand new $100 bills had gutter fold errors so they are sifting through them before shipping them out.

Oh and silver got to $30 an ounce and is currently going down again. Yup.

 

They are scratched, dented, covered in verdigris and gum. At least I hope that is gum.

Here are the stats for this...
Type / Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 1967
Mintage: 345,140,645
Metal: 98% Copper, 1.5% Zinc, 0.5% Tin
Value: $0.03 in G-4

Type/Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 1982
Mintage: 876,036,898
Metal: 98% Copper, 0.5% Tin, and 1.5% Zinc
Value: $0.02 in F

Type/Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 1986
Mintage: 788,285,000
Metal: 98% Copper, 0.5% Tin, and 1.5% Zinc
Value: $0.02 in F

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Northern Most Americas

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I am really stretching with these finds. They were put aside back when I was not finding anything good so I guess I have to write something about them.

In case anybody was wondering how about my methodology here it goes:

1. Check all coins and bills
2. Place on desk anything new, old, weird, or foreign
3. Line them up in front of the computer for pictures and post
4. Rinse hands
5. Repeat

 Occasionally if I get something super-great I break the cycle but that does not happen often.

 

Here's the stats...

Type/Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 1999
Mintage: 1,089,625,000
Metal: 98% Copper, 0.5% Tin, 1.5% Zinc
Value: $0.01 in F

Type/Country: 25 Cents-American Samoa / United States
Year: 2009 P
Mintage: 42,600,000
Metal: 91.67% Copper 8.33% Nickel
Value: $0.25 in F-12

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1967 not 1867 Cent

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I get a lot of questions about this particular cent. Apparently when most people see a commemorative they forget that although the design is new the production stays virtually the same. These coins are made for amateur collectors and it keeps the future value low.

Confusion also sets in with the dual dates. Since Canada never made an 1867 cent when people tell me they found an 1867 cent I must explain over and over again how that is not possible.

The front has the tiara portrait version of Queen Elizabeth II but this one is damaged so all the words are almost scraped off.
The reverse has the centennial design with the dual date (1867-1967) and a rock dove in flight.

Here's the stats...
Type / Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 1967
Mintage: 345,140,645
Metal: 98% Copper, 1.5% Zinc, 0.5% Tin
Value: $0.03 in G-4

I would add that it has been years since I found this particular coin and within two weeks I found two in my change. Along with that I found a another 1944 U.S. cent, a 2004-P Canada dime, and a 1947 U.S. nickel all of them are so common that I am finding them every few months. I refused to take pictures of them again.

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2003, 2004, 2000-More

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Few people live long enough to see themselves on a coin, even fewer live so long that they need to update their official image.

Queen Elizabeth II is now on her fourth effigy. In 2003 the official effigy used by the royal family was changed to show a more mature Queen. That meant anyone using the third effigy must update it to version 4.0.

Since this happened mid-year some 2003 coins already started using the third image then had to switch to fourth. In most cases value is not affected. For the 2003 Canadian dime no official mintage has ever been given to either effigy so it is assumed they are about 50/50.

Now this post would be great if I had both versions of 2003 side by side but sorry that is not what I found. Instead I got a 2003 and 2004 with the same "new" effigy. I just wanted to let everyone know that another version of the 2003-P Canadian dime does exist.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 10 Cents / Canada
Year: 2003-P Older Queen effigy, new portrait
Mintage: 163,684,000 (both types included)
Metal: 92% Steel, 5.5% Copper, 2.5% Nickel
Value: $0.10

Type/Country: 10 Cents / Canada
Year: 2004-P
Mintage: 214,143,000
Metal: 92% Steel, 5.5% Copper, 2.5% Nickel
Value: $0.10

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1966 Canadian Cent

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Woo hoo another Canadian cent. Okay so maybe I am not really that enthusiastic seeing how I have 11 more in a tin can somewhere. Add to that I still have not found a 1990 Canadian cent which is leaving a gap in my records.

Seriously I found nearly every cent from Canada between 1921-2010 and even some varieties but that one 1990 is eluding me. Some kind internet folks have offered to give me the cent for free. As nice as that is I want to find this one from my change. Come on I found the 1964 cent 32 times.

Sure 1990 had a slightly lower mintage but nothing drastic, 218,035,000 compared to an average 750,000,000.

Oh wait back to the cent I actually found.

 

Here's the stats...
Type / Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 1966
Mintage: 183,644,388
Metal: Bronze
Value: $0.03 in G-4


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Coins That Begin With C

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At first I thought I found two Canadian coins instead one turned out to be slightly smaller. It was quite crusty and it took a few seconds to realize it was from the Cayman Islands. The smaller cent is 17.00mm and the larger is 19.10mm which is just a difference of 2.10mm yet it is obvious when they are in hand.

¢ & ¢

While the Canadian coin is quite sharp and shiny the Cayman Islands cent is in bad shape. It seems that at one point someone taped the cent. A clear light strip is on one side and lots of verdigris is on either side of the lighter strip. This happens when the chemical in the adhesive reacts with air and the bronze in the coin.

Of course the Canadian cent is a common find around this place but the Cayman Islands cent is hardly ever seen. It has been years since I found a Cayman Islands coin and longer since I found a cent.

Here's the stats from top left...
Type/Country: 1 Cent / Cayman Islands
Year: 1982
Mintage: Not yet known.
Metal: Bronze
Value: $0.03 in Good (although this does have lots of verdigris damage)

Type / Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 2005
Mintage: 759,658,000
Metal: Bronze-Plated Zinc
Value: $0.02 in XF

It is kind of annoying when a coin as old as the 1982 Cayman Islands cent still has no official mintage listed.

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