Canadian Mint Video 1920's

Zohar

Ran across this which may be of interest to you Canadian coin collectors.

"Silent film with title cards describing operations at the Royal Mint of Canada in 1920, from gold and silver bars all the way to the finished coins. The film hasn't been digitally remastered as yet so the quality is a little iffy in places however it's an orignal from 90 years ago"

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JCMhouston

Very itneresting movie, I guess sorting them by hand before bagging them does not lead to a lot of high grade coins escaping.

avenue7

Nice video, thanks for sharing

DoubleEagle59

I saw that about a year ago but it's nice to see it again.

I assume the year on the quarter (about 7:13 into the video) is 1920?

It couldn't be later because they were producing Large cents in the video and these ended in 1920.

ProofArtworkonCircs

Canadian silver dollars for circulation were not invented in Canada until 1935. There was no gold coinage in 1920. There were soverigns made in 1919.

spoon

I like the part describing silver as "ready to be converted into dollars, half dollars and church collection" ... even if there weren't silver dollars then. That is odd, though. I wonder why they'd mention dollars as a part of this? If it were produced later with old footage when Canadians had silver $s, they likely wouldn't be using silent film cards. And we know the footage is old from the large cents in it. Interesting.

lordmarcovan

Very interesting, thanks.