SYL
can u be more specific please?
I have just compared over a dozen images of the traders right arm of 48 and 47 si dollar images I have and can see no difference that would be causing an issue. there are some very, very small deviations on the arm on a few of them under the lenses magnification visible. sometimes metal flows during the striking process we discussed that aspect back at Coppercoins yeras ago. even that considered, please point out what your concern is. Perhaps you let lighting fool you.....yes me too sometimes... we are the same age... the eyes and glasses...
My macro lens (12 years old) is getting older and has a macro focusing /sharpness issue at times.
H
Currently there are 17 pieces of 1914 Ten Dollar gold in PCGS MS-64 listed for the April 8 Heritage auction. I suspect that with the price of gold over $5K USD, these will sell for near bullion value ($2,500 USD each or thereabouts).
It is sad to see nice old coins like these reduced to widgits or candidates for the melting pot. I would be surprised if the 63s and 62s are not already being melted.
Numismatic author & owner of the Uncommon Cents collections. 2011 and 2025 Fred Bowman award winner, 2020 J. Douglas Ferguson award winner, & 2022 Paul Fiocca award winner.
will take other images when I get back from a month+ long trip Overseas..
Maybe i find something interesting there;
if all goes right, will leave in a week or so but have lots of things to do before.
H
ajaan posts " Just a thought. Could this be a SP coin? "
No this is a Mint State coin although PCGS has a track record of confusing SP, MS. PL & Matte dollars with each other. 1936, 1937 & PL dollars come to mind.
@ajaan said:
Nice coins. When compared to the other coins, the 1881 is under graded.
Yes. IMO, the 1881 and the 1898 are the only ones that are properly graded by my standards. PCGS usually overgrades midgrade Newfoundland halves by 1-2 steps.
It’s been a while since my last Canadian coin arrived. One of the most fun things I did last year was communicate really closely with dealers up in Canada. But since then the tariff situation has communicated things, and I’m having trouble getting even lower value coins. It’s really taken the wind out of my sails.
Hopefully I can pick up a few pieces when I visit Canada in August.
Phil Arnold Director of Photography, GreatCollections
greatcollections.com
I don’t have much Canadian, but have recently added this one. Ex Geoffrey Bell Collection. Ex Temple. (Can anyone please tell me about Temple? This is the second fantastic coin I have from his collection.)
@pruebas said:
I don’t have much Canadian, but have recently added this one. Ex Geoffrey Bell Collection. Ex Temple. (Can anyone please tell me about Temple? This is the second fantastic coin I have from his collection.)
That is a highly sought after Wyon piece. Congrats.
He collected a variety of unusual Canadian tokens and medals. He specialized in those catalogued by Bowman. At his passing he was working on updating the catalogue for the tokens of Thomas Church. My unique example is below. I don't know what happened to his research material. Hopefully it is in the hands of the Canadian Numismatic Research Society for publication. Maybe @bosox has more info.
The only known pairing of these two dies.
Gene
Life member #369 of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association Member of Canadian Association of Token Collectors
Collector of: Canadian coins and pre-confederation tokens Darkside proof/mint sets dated 1960 My Ebay
@pruebas said:
I don’t have much Canadian, but have recently added this one. Ex Geoffrey Bell Collection. Ex Temple. (Can anyone please tell me about Temple? This is the second fantastic coin I have from his collection.)
That is a highly sought after Wyon piece. Congrats.
Dr. Temple was from Michigan. He collected a variety of unusual Canadian tokens and medals. He specialized in those catalogued by Bowman. At his passing he was working on updating the catalogue for the tokens of Thomas Church. My unique example is below. I don't know what happened to his research material. Hopefully it is in the hands of the Canadian Numismatic Research Society for publication. Maybe @bosox has more info.
The only known pairing of these two dies.
Thanks Gene.
This is my other ex. Temple piece. It’s the silver restrike—the nicest one I have ever seen.
Dr, John was an acquaintance in that I often ran into him at Canadian shows. He was a great guy and specialized in Canadian trials, patterns, proofs, and tokens. He bought them with both hands at the Norweb sale and never looked back. Sandy Campbell handled his collection after he died. I gave him a dedication shout out in "Past & Nearly Perfect" because those were his kind of coins.
Numismatic author & owner of the Uncommon Cents collections. 2011 and 2025 Fred Bowman award winner, 2020 J. Douglas Ferguson award winner, & 2022 Paul Fiocca award winner.
@bosox said:
Dr, John was an acquaintance in that I often ran into him at Canadian shows. He was a great guy and specialized in Canadian trials, patterns, proofs, and tokens. He bought them with both hands at the Norweb sale and never looked back. Sandy Campbell handled his collection after he died. I gave him a dedication shout out in "Past & Nearly Perfect" because those were his kind of coins.
Sounds like a kindred spirit, except for me it’s Mexico instead of Canada.
@PhilArnold said:
It’s been a while since my last Canadian coin arrived. One of the most fun things I did last year was communicate really closely with dealers up in Canada. But since then the tariff situation has communicated things, and I’m having trouble getting even lower value coins. It’s really taken the wind out of my sails.
Hopefully I can pick up a few pieces when I visit Canada in August.
The tariff situation has made it much more difficult to get coins to the US. Love your photography. I remember when you worked on a number of Gothic Florins for me many years ago - just to get the color right.
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Newfoundland 1940 10 cents
just picked up this Gem of a NFL 1940 10 cents at an auction.
curious about a realistic grade.
thanks
H
I posted this on my own post a little while ago but I absolutely love Voyageur Dollars!
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- Someone, probably
You're not alone. These were posted earlier as well
join the club
YQQ .... I still don't understand what is blocking the lower arm of the rear canoer. It's noy on any silver dollars that I've seen.
SYL
can u be more specific please?
I have just compared over a dozen images of the traders right arm of 48 and 47 si dollar images I have and can see no difference that would be causing an issue. there are some very, very small deviations on the arm on a few of them under the lenses magnification visible. sometimes metal flows during the striking process we discussed that aspect back at Coppercoins yeras ago. even that considered, please point out what your concern is. Perhaps you let lighting fool you.....yes me too sometimes... we are the same age... the eyes and glasses...
My macro lens (12 years old) is getting older and has a macro focusing /sharpness issue at times.
H
On your coin there appears to be a large rock or something blocking out part of the rear guy's arm. All other dollars from that era show a straight clear arm of him. Here the CaC photo for a '48:
https://www.coinsandcanada.com/coins-prices.php?coin=1-dollar-1948&years=1-dollar-1937-1952
Disregard
@syl - I think what you're seeing is a lighting anomaly.
@YQQ - can you post a larger photo of the reverse? Possibly with a slightly different lighting angle?
Life member #369 of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association
Member of Canadian Association of Token Collectors
Collector of:
Canadian coins and pre-confederation tokens
Darkside proof/mint sets dated 1960
My Ebay
Cheap addition for the album. The Dansco album has a ton of George VI nickels.
Phil Arnold
Director of Photography, GreatCollections
greatcollections.com
Currently there are 17 pieces of 1914 Ten Dollar gold in PCGS MS-64 listed for the April 8 Heritage auction. I suspect that with the price of gold over $5K USD, these will sell for near bullion value ($2,500 USD each or thereabouts).
It is sad to see nice old coins like these reduced to widgits or candidates for the melting pot. I would be surprised if the 63s and 62s are not already being melted.
http://www.victoriancent.com
will take other images when I get back from a month+ long trip Overseas..
Maybe i find something interesting there;
if all goes right, will leave in a week or so but have lots of things to do before.
H
One day I'll break down and put a sub set of these 1947 varities together
Just a thought. Could this be a SP coin?
DPOTD-3
'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'
CU #3245 B.N.A. #428
Don
NGC MS 62
Well, it's worth way more than 2 dollars now! Nice coin!
ajaan posts " Just a thought. Could this be a SP coin? "
No this is a Mint State coin although PCGS has a track record of confusing SP, MS. PL & Matte dollars with each other. 1936, 1937 & PL dollars come to mind.
Grades and Trueviews just posted for 6 Newfoundland halves. However, there is no Trueview for the 1880 Wide O quarter in F15 yet.
1881 PCGS VF25
1882-H PCGS VF35
1896 PCGS VF25
1898 PCGS XF40
1899 Wide 9 PCGS VF25
1904-H PCGS XF45
Nice coins. When compared to the other coins, the 1881 is under graded.
DPOTD-3
'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'
CU #3245 B.N.A. #428
Don
Great group of coins @Barberian!
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
Yes. IMO, the 1881 and the 1898 are the only ones that are properly graded by my standards. PCGS usually overgrades midgrade Newfoundland halves by 1-2 steps.
I liked this one (and probably paid too much)
sorry mistake
There are 4 different varieties of the 1953 dollar. A picture of the
Obverse is required if you want to identify them.
Finally, the Trueviews of my 1880 wide 0 quarter came through.
PCGS F15 - looks too high to me
I am thinking Shoulder Fold (SF) - Full Water Lines (FWL)
It’s been a while since my last Canadian coin arrived. One of the most fun things I did last year was communicate really closely with dealers up in Canada. But since then the tariff situation has communicated things, and I’m having trouble getting even lower value coins. It’s really taken the wind out of my sails.
Hopefully I can pick up a few pieces when I visit Canada in August.
Phil Arnold
Director of Photography, GreatCollections
greatcollections.com
I don’t have much Canadian, but have recently added this one. Ex Geoffrey Bell Collection. Ex Temple. (Can anyone please tell me about Temple? This is the second fantastic coin I have from his collection.)
That is a highly sought after Wyon piece. Congrats.
Dr. John Temple was from Michigan. I believe this is his obit. https://www.desmondfuneralhome.com/obituaries/John-Edward-Temple?obId=12338269
He collected a variety of unusual Canadian tokens and medals. He specialized in those catalogued by Bowman. At his passing he was working on updating the catalogue for the tokens of Thomas Church. My unique example is below. I don't know what happened to his research material. Hopefully it is in the hands of the Canadian Numismatic Research Society for publication. Maybe @bosox has more info.
The only known pairing of these two dies.
Life member #369 of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association
Member of Canadian Association of Token Collectors
Collector of:
Canadian coins and pre-confederation tokens
Darkside proof/mint sets dated 1960
My Ebay
Thanks Gene.
This is my other ex. Temple piece. It’s the silver restrike—the nicest one I have ever seen.
Temple seems to have had a great eye!
And mine in bronze.
Life member #369 of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association
Member of Canadian Association of Token Collectors
Collector of:
Canadian coins and pre-confederation tokens
Darkside proof/mint sets dated 1960
My Ebay
Lovely piece!
Dr, John was an acquaintance in that I often ran into him at Canadian shows. He was a great guy and specialized in Canadian trials, patterns, proofs, and tokens. He bought them with both hands at the Norweb sale and never looked back. Sandy Campbell handled his collection after he died. I gave him a dedication shout out in "Past & Nearly Perfect" because those were his kind of coins.
http://www.victoriancent.com
Sounds like a kindred spirit, except for me it’s Mexico instead of Canada.
An NGC PL65 toner
Phil Arnold
Director of Photography, GreatCollections
greatcollections.com
Great looking coin and even better photography.
That is tremendous!
Nice 1948 50 cent.
The most valuable of the George VI series.
FYI, that is the “ 8 far from hoof variety”
Yes, there others as well. Its one series I always liked 👍
It is my favourite series also, I have about 75 of them all told.
There are many varieties for most years with 1947 having the most varieties
You got that right on both counts. Great work Phil.
The tariff situation has made it much more difficult to get coins to the US. Love your photography. I remember when you worked on a number of Gothic Florins for me many years ago - just to get the color right.
Ill find the reverse some where. Something that was put away
This is my latest addition!
Looks nice. Please post obverse photo.
Life member #369 of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association
Member of Canadian Association of Token Collectors
Collector of:
Canadian coins and pre-confederation tokens
Darkside proof/mint sets dated 1960
My Ebay
No gots, I'll see if I can get one 😉
The forward waterlines don't look right .... too short
obv images needed
REV at first and fast look:
heck WL are 5
Bow WL are short