Antique shop finds....and lots of Canada!

BillyKingsley

I decided to visit an antique shop here in Toledo and ended up $60 poorer. I think it was well spent, though. I got lots of cool stuff from around the world.
The Hot Wheels car cost me more then any single coin! From left to right:
1859 Canada Large Cent, 1967 Canada Nickel, 1973 Canada Commerative Quarter,
1974 Panama Proof, 1867 Italian Lira, 1913 Italian 5 Centisimo(Mislabeled as 1915), Canadian 1932 Cent
1912 Canada Large cent, 1973 Liberia cent (think it's a proof), 1933 American cent, 1927 American Cent, 1944 Phillipene Centavo (made by the USA),
Canadian 1957 Nickel, Proof 1971 American Dime, 1952 S American Quarter, 1927 American dime.





And, as I was in the middle of typing this, a friend of mine from Canada came down and brought me a bunch of new additions to my Canadian collection! This might put me over 100 Canadian coins. I sent my friend a list of what I had and he pulled out things I didn't have from his pocket. The Quarters are all commertives. Does anyone have any more info on the one with the color on it? There is also a commertive dime, still in the bag, on the top.



Some of the Canadians also have what looks like a P mint mark....where is that from?

Thanks!

1960NYGiants

Hey Billy - nice start.

Check out that 1859 cent very closely. That date is known as the king of varieties and some are worth hundreds even thousands of dollars. Here's a site to check some out: Large Cent Varieties

The 25c piece with the red center is "poppy" commem for Remembrance Day (Canada's equal to our Memorial Day / Veteran's Day). Value is $5 in MS63.

The "P" mintmark is really not a mintmark but a "composition mark" (Charlton) indicating that the coin is plated. The 2000P 25c is very scarce!

I used to collect the Hot Wheels cars when I was younger. Gave away most of them to my nephews many years ago. But saved the Corvette's! I don't think I had any of the Red Lines tho.

goossen

nice pickups! I love going to the antique shops... always coming back with lots of stuff

BCNumismatics

Billy,
I do collect Canadian coins myself.I have got one of the Red Poppy 25c. coins,plus one of the Pink Ribbon 25c. coins as well.

I have heard that Canada is issuing another Red Poppy 25c. coin this year.It will commemorate the 90th. Anniversary of the Armistice.

Have a read through here.

Aidan.

BillyKingsley

Thank you for the comments, folks! Having a good friend up in Canada is great. I got a total of exactly 50 new Canadian coins this past week...I had to wait until I got back home to list them in my files, as I did not bring my Flash drive with me to Ohio.

Wow! I had no idea that 1859 had so many varietys. Wow! I will have to see if I can figure out which one mine is...of cource, with that sight saying that there may be over 400(!) I don't know if I ever will...but I enjoy it! The store actually had 4 1859s, I went with the one I liked the best, and didn't even know there could have been variations...I'm still new. (This one I got was actually marked 2 dollars less then one of the other ones but this one looked better-the other may have been a rarer variery, I guess now)

I will have my friend look out for that new one from this year. Thanks for the heads up! I'll have to look through both of those websights later.

I need to hit antique shops more often...I could have easily spent into the 4 digits if I had it, and the volume of the coins would have been enormous!

shirohniichan

The 1867 1 lira is a cool coin. I think that's the first or second year Italy issued silver after joining the Latin Monetary Union.

Switzerland, France, Italy, and Belgium had the same legal tender coin of 1 franc (or lira in Italy's case) weighing 5.0 grams of .900 fine silver. Switzerland changed the fineness of its coins to .835 without warning the others, and Gresham's Law came into play. Soon the new Swiss francs came flooding into French and Italian banks in a 1 to 1 exchange for the francs containing more silver, so France spearheaded the effort to start the LMU and level the playing field.