All other cent coins manufactured this year with the classic schooner reverse design are also being doubled-dated By thecanadiannumismatist Wednesday, October 27, By thecanadiannumismatist Friday, September 24, In , the collaboration of Frederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip and John Macleod led to the isolation and purification of insulin and offered a life-saving treatment to people whose lives would previously have been cut short by diabetes.
By Coinsandcanada Tuesday, July 13, Due to the rising price of copper, the Royal Canadian Mint started to change the composition of Canadian 1-cent coins. In and , several coins were issued, mostly in sets, for testing in vending machines. From a copper to steel, a new production method, called multi-ply plating, combined with the new composition, were use for Canadian coinage, and for several foreign coins.
By Lightw4re Thursday, March 4, In , a tiny dot was placed on each of the reverse dies; on the 1 cent piece the dot appeared under the date, while on the 10 and 25 cents pieces it was placed under the bow on the wreath. Despite the critical shortages that had led to the emergency production of the dot coins, it appears that only 25 cents pieces were put into circulation. Consequently, the 1 and 10 cents are rarer. By Lightw4re Friday, November 20, Last year was historical due to the amount of high-end coins that sold at auctions.
Because of the restrictions and limitations on social gatherings around the country, most auctions were online exclusively, without any attendance at physical shows. Nevertheless, the rising prices for precious metals attracted and animated the Canadian coins market. Here's the Top 10 most valuable Canadian coins sold at auction in so far. By Lightw4re Wednesday, October 14, On July 28, , Royal Canadian Mint launched two new circulation 2-dollar coins including a red and black colored one to commemorate Bill Reid contributions to contemporary Indigenous art.
The bold image of a grizzly bear, a favourite character of Reid's paintings, carvings and jewelry, fills the reverse side of the commemorative coin. By Lightw4re Tuesday, July 28, You have inherited of a collection, you no longer collect, you need money for essential life expenses, you want to sell a part of your collection to buy other numismatic products Whatever the reason, this 3-steps guide was created to help you sell your coins and get the most out of them.
By Lightw4re Thursday, July 23, Find several finishes used by the Royal Canadian Mint to produce circulation and collector coins. By Lightw4re Friday, February 28, Mostly because of the George Hans Cook Collection of Canadian Coinage auction, the most complete collection of Canadian coins ever assembled, some of the greatest and rarest canadian coins changed hands this year.
Here's the Top 10 most valuable canadian coins sold at auction in so far. By Lightw4re Wednesday, November 27, Since , Royal Canadian Mint issued 19 circulating coins with different colored design for several denomations. This article illustrates my observations as a collector who wanted to know more about who it's made.
It isn't meant to be technical or scientific. By looking at the coins, which the color has been removed, we can see the changes that were made over the years. By castor Tuesday, January 29, Encased coins are coins that have been inserted into a holder that changes the character of the coin from money to an advertising or souvenir device. The concept was really popularized at the Pan American Exposition in and was used extensively throughout the the 20th century for advertising.
By Gaetan C. Wednesday, October 10, To identify the percentage, degree and time on the obverse or reverse of circulating canadian coins based on their effigy. Here are some relatively common examples of coins with marks that aren't genuine errors and varieties. By Lightw4re Tuesday, April 18, By Lightw4re Thursday, March 16, Here's a list of short articles for novices to beginners previously published on the Atlantic Provinces Numismatic Association website from to and presented here for educational purpose.
Why should a coin collector and investor buy and collect professionally graded and certified coins? Commonly called "slabs", they are housed in a protective plastic holder. There are many companies - over a dozen are less than 2 years old - which will put your coin in a slab after Certifying that it is Authentic, and assigning a Grade to the coin. Gold Maple Leafs and Silver Maple Leafs are receiving packaging makeovers, changes clearly mandated by investor disfavor with packaging that the Royal Canadian Mint has used since the coins were introduced.
The changes appear to be good moves, which should increase sales of Silver Maple Leafs and help keep Gold Maple Leafs the preferred pure.
Only Royal Canadian Mint reports from to , with the exception of , contain information regarding the life and usage of dies. In , the average number of coins struck per die was 69, while in it rose to , By Patrick Glassford Tuesday, April 19, Coins are usually described by their country of origin, type, denomination, date, mint mark, variety and condition.
With all but the last of these, there is rarely any ambiguity. However, with their state of preservation or condition, there often are differing opinions, so a standard system of grading coins has evolved which allows us to more clearly determine and communicate their relative quality. When we think of money, we typically think of bank notes and coins.
But today, the bulk of money consists of deposits in financial institutions, which exist merely as signals in computer memories. As civilizations evolve, they search for more efficient means of exchange. Consequently, money has changed from objects with considerable intrinsic value to the purely symbolic, its value hinging solely on the reputation of the issuer. By Bank of Canada Monday, December 1, Objects used as money by diverse cultures throughout history reveal a great deal about what these societies valued, both literally and figuratively.
They also provide clues about the sophistication and state of their economies and their politics, as well as their art and religion. In primitive societies, money was practical in nature.
People seek to acquire money not for itself but to exchange it for desired goods and services, now or in the future. Consequently, they must be confident that the object being used as money is widely accepted by others and that it will retain its purchasing power over time. While having more money can benefit an individual, too much money in circulation relative to the supply of goods and services will lead to rising prices inflation. War exacts a terrible toll on society.
Along with untold human suffering and loss of life, the economic cost in terms of damaged property and lost opportunities can be incalculable, even for the victor. When a society calls up its soldiers, it also mobilizes its economy, with resources diverted from peacetime to wartime production. To finance this transformation and the costs of waging war, a country's monetary and financial system is brought into play. Financial innovation is permitting people to access the money they hold in the form of deposits in new ways.
Fifty years ago, besides cash, cheques were the most common form of payment used by consumers and businesses. Today, retail payment instruments include credit and debit cards and stored-valued cards. Although Roman emperors reputedly collected coins, modern collecting traces its origins to the great Renaissance poet and author Petrarch, in the 14th century. Subsequently, European royalty and popes, fascinated by all things classical, became avid collectors of coins; hence the nickname, hobby of kings.
Money has always been a source of endless fascination. Few can do without it, and the quest to acquire it, through both fair means and foul, has preoccupied people throughout history. It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil , but in reality no modern civilization could function without it.
Money is the lubricant of commerce, linking buyers and sellers, borrowers and lenders. By Banque du Canada Monday, December 1, The following content comes from the Canadian Coinoisseur website, which not longer exist since , by Michael Walsh. To keep this information available to the public and for a perpetuity reason, we reproduced it here.
Through newsletter, Walsh published some Torex Auctions results between and Here are some of these newsletter. To help you to identify die clash on canadian coins, here's a list of images that show you obverses and reverses die clash possibilities.
By castor Thursday, October 9, Find out all coins of the three year program of circulation and collector coins in honour of the Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
By Lightw4re Friday, September 12, Even if there are a lot of errors and varieties on the 5 cents , like the whistling queen , the most popular is and will always be the Extra Water Line XWL in front of the beaver. By Lightw4re Monday, September 8, Find the varieties of the Terry Fox dollar with images of several zones on this coin. Here's the list of varieties : Normal grass , without trees, half grass, no grass.
The Mint told the P. Treasury that domestic requirements would be too great to leave time for the P. The National Currency Collection contains some , items consisting of coins, tokens and paper money in the custody of, or owned by, the Bank of Canada. It includes a relatively complete collection of the coins, tokens and of paper money that have been used or are now being used in Canada.
The purpose of the collection is to portray the development of money through the ages with particular emphasis on the history of Canada's currency. Before the arrival of the Europeans in the early 16th century, Canada was inhabited by its First Nations. They did not use currency but traded in goods and services on a barter basis.
Certain objects, however, were regarded as having special economic and social value. Among the First Nations of the east, wampum was most often used to measure wealth and for gift-giving. The wampum belt you see on the screen is made of small cylindrical shells strung together. In addition to being used as a means of payment, wampum belts also had ceremonial uses, such as the marking of peace treaties, the summoning of the various nations to war, or the recording of important events in the history of the people.
The North American First Nations for many years made ornaments of bone, shell and stone. The coming of the Europeans introduced them to ornaments made of brass, copper and silver.
The early French fur traders soon learned that the Aboriginals were more than willing to exchange their furs for metal ornaments, especially silver. The colonists living in New France from the mids on used barter to exchange goods but also used metal coins, such as this sol French coin dated However, there was never enough hard currency to go around.
By , the King of France decided to ban the practice of issuing playing card money. The colony's inhabitants were forced to make do with coinage supplied from France, such as the deniers coin known as a mousquetaire because its cross resembled that adorning the capes of the famous musketeers.
There was a chronic shortage of currency in New France throughout the French Regime; coins brought out from the mother country returned almost immediately to France. Governor after governor pleaded with the French king to provide distinctive coins that would remain in the colony because they would be unacceptable in France. The copper coin illustrated is one of a colonial issue that the Company of the Indies, a private French trading company, imported into New France under the authorization of Louis XV.
The colonists, however, were reluctant to use the new coinage because of their previous experience with depreciation of copper coins. Copper coins were not widely used in New France for a large part of its year history. The reason for this apparent anomaly was a distrust of copper coinage that developed early in the commercial life of the colony.
He eventually gave King Louis ample reason to wish that the Scot had never left his native land. During the French regime in Canada the need for higher denominations of currency was filled by paper money. The lowest denomination of this paper money, however, was 7 sols 6 deniers. The British colonial period did not mean an end to the shortage of coinage. The economy was still extremely dependent on the fur trade, and any coins arriving from England immediately found their way back.
Upon his arrival in P. Although Spanish coins, mainly the dollars or 8-reale pieces, occasionally found their way to the island in trade, they rarely remained in circulation because they were used to pay for imported goods.
During the s, trade burgeoned between the United States and the colonies of British North America. The British colonies, led by the Province of Canada, became convinced that they needed to replace the sterling system, which had been used since , with the decimal system used in the United States.
All of the British North American colonies originally had currency systems based on pounds, shillings and pence, though foreign coins circulated widely.
By the s, however, growing trade with the United States and the widespread use of U. The Province of Canada, which existed as a political entity from to and consisted of what are now Ontario and Quebec, was the first part of British North America to adopt the familiar decimal system of currency by an act passed in Perhaps the most curious of all the decimal coins of the British North American provinces is the New Brunswick half cent.
It was never ordered, nor indeed even required, by the colony! In both New Brunswick and Nova Scotia adopted a decimal currency system. The Nova Scotia government, however, wished to keep British silver in circulation as well. The decimal coinage issued by the Province of Canada in brought some semblance of order to the chaotic scramble for small change that was usual in the colonies. Since people had been using English and American coins as well as local tokens in their everyday transactions, the new currency was welcome.
Prince Edward Island was the last of the British North American colonies to adopt a decimal system of currency. Newfoundland, a separate British colony, was allowed to issue its own coinage beginning in The lowest denomination issued was the one cent, which was one inch in diameter and made of bronze. The design of this coin was the subject of some discussion between colonial and home office authorities. Newfoundland had had its own currency since and over the years the people became very attached to their large one-cent pieces, an inch in diameter, and to their "fish scales," as the small silver five-cent pieces were locally known.
John Cabot is given credit for the discovery of Newfoundland in , although many believe that the Vikings were there hundreds of years earlier. By the English had firmly established their rule over the island, and Newfoundland remained a British colony until , when it entered Confederation as the tenth province of Canada.
Like all other British North American colonies, Newfoundland adopted, in the midth century, a decimal currency consisting of dollars-cents-mils. However, in introducing the new currency in , Newfoundland, unlike other colonies, chose to include a gold coin among the denominations it was issuing. In the late s, gold was discovered in the Fraser River and Cariboo districts of British Columbia.
The gold rush that followed brought a large influx of new inhabitants, changing the colony virtually overnight from a small settlement based on trading to a rapidly expanding one. Thirty-six limited mintage collector coins and sets, including the Special Edition Uncirculated Set featuring all three coloured Top Canadian Olympic Winter Moments coins, are also available. Here's a complete line-up of the Winter Games Circulation Program including release dates:.
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