1946 Canadian Dollar - Doubled Ear???

Windycity

I am not a Canadian expert by any means but I did recently pick up this 1946 Dollar and noted a fairly substantial doubled ear. As a Morgan Vam collector, I guess you notice these things. Is this common or a known variety? Any help appreciated.

coinkat

never seen or heard of this- A decent coin.

The 1946 does have a variation in waterlines and I believe the HP initials can be doubled

1960NYGiants

Not mentioned in the 2012 edition of Charlton with the silver $ varieties.
Nice coin.

YQQ

here is a ICCS graded MS 63 1946 $ 1 and a close up of the ear...
you decide...

Windycity

I think both coins are doubled ears... I took a closer look at mine and noticed doubling on the profile, nose, eye and HP.

YQQ

here are 2 more for you to decide

Windycity

Nope... neither of those appear to be doubled ear coins.

YQQ

I will in the next few days put them next to each other and include yours.
might only be next week..

LochNESS

Sounds like YQQ is patiently waiting for the "correct" answer

I haven't examined this Type enough to know one way or the other, but I've taught enough students to recognize that classic technique

Windycity

Updating this post... Ken Potter has reviewed the coin and confirmed it as a doubled die. He has seen this same type once before about 15-20 years ago. He is apparently writing an article about this variety for CONECA.

DoubleEagle59

Double ear or not, doesn't really make a 'value' difference.

Pokermandude

<< <i>Double ear or not, doesn't really make a 'value' difference. >>



Agreed. Most of us canucks don't place much value on small varieties such as DDO/DDR, repunched this and thats. Although there is a slow moving trend whichis adding more varieties of various coins into the Charlton guide, and thus onto the radar of coin buyers.

syl

I agree with Poker ... Very very few Canadian varieties warrant any kind of premium. A few have crept into Trends and Charlton's, but it's probably less than 1% of what floating around out there. Vendors on Ebay magnify sections of the coin design by 40-60X and claim that there is a rarity or scarcity, but it's bunk, especially when they ID die cracks or small misalignments. Any household metallic object manufactured during the Victorian era or during the war years will show all kinds of inconsistencies from one object to the other under anything more than 10X. All that stuff is well within tolerance and it's nothing earthshattering.