A Pair of Key Date Canadian Half Toners
Walkerguy21D
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As collectors of the series know, the 1948 half dollar has the lowest mintage of the George VI series, at <38,000 coined....this also makes it the third lowest mintage of ANY regular issue Canadian half (I think).
But like a lot of Darkside coinage, low mintage doesn't equate to 'expensive'. I'm guessing demand and the quantity saved keeps this quite reasonable. Certainly a Walking Lib or Barber half with a mintage like this would be astronomical in higher grades.
But I like these as they are, and thought I'd share these with the forum here:
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Nice pickups!
The strike on the left coin is superb for the date. Are those tick marks in the left obv field? Or part of the toning pattern?
The coin on the right looks mid AU.
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Toning spots for the most part, but there are two tiny ticks under the G and another near the O.
Those are beauties @Walkerguy21D ! I love the one on the left. Toning is beautiful.
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George VI 50 Cents are tough in 64 and higher. Great quality in production except handling. Most seem to have bag marks that just beg the question... Why go to all the trouble of making a superb product if at the end of the day it is going to have the look as if it were accidentally dropped down the kitchen sink while the garbage disposal was running... I have conceded that I will never come close to owning a GEM set
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I have a 48 that I bought about 30 years ago and shortly thereafter had it graded by ANACS. And it was graded a 62 which was a disappointment. Still a nice coin and one I can live with
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Thanks, the old blue Whitman album it came out of was very kind, compensating for the light cleaning it had suffered.