The inner portion of the upper loop also is more like an open circle. Comparing side-by-side, it's easy to see the difference.

Some kind of merchant stamp which, unless a well-known merchant and early, usually dertact from the grade and value. You need a much larger pic.

I don't see anything.

I vote for MD on this 5 year old thread, not doubled

Here's some SOLD on Ebay recently, not asked price: https://www.ebay.com/itm/324532773723?hash=item4b8fa9235b:g:qD4AAOSwoPhgV8mM https://www.ebay.com/itm/274677760386?hash=item3ff4120182:g:csgAAOSw46ZgItxS https://www.ebay.com/itm/353371462174?hash=item5246949a1e:g:ChIAAOSwgLpgFZF7 https://www.ebay....

It's because of the diagonal thin scratch marks. The cleaning was done with a heavy hand. Wearwise, it's AU.

Yes, show us some pics and then send it to ICCS in T.O. if you plan on keeping it up here or offer for local sale.

It would be scrap silver price... almost $8 US or $10 Canadian/

They are nice to keep as an oddity, and some error collectors might be interested, but I doubt it would pay for a Starbuck's double-latte with tip.

Broken/split planchet. Their QC must have been napping that day.

But you have more than one working die. Each die, with a hand-punched N, would have the H in a slightly different place. All of the coins that were struck from that single working die would be the same, but you have/had more than one working die. There were 1 million coins struck and , by that time,...

No, all of the working dies were struck by the hub/matrix with NO mintmark. That area was just a blank part of the field. Then each partially finished working die was handpunched by by the minting crew with an "H". It could have been a different person handpunching the H's each day/week so they were...

The H's on the '98 were handpunched into each die. Because of that, the H's are all over ... left, right, high, .low etc. None are any scarcer than any other.

I'd say nickel-plated ... Ni is magnetic, but not like steel or iron. Maybe a high school experiment in shop.

So it cost someone $10 Canadian plus juice and shipping to buy a $10 bill? And how could there be over 20 bids and the closing price be $10?