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November 25, 2022
10 cents 1937 to 1964 - Price guide and values
In 1937, the design on the reverse changed for the Bluenose, a fishing and racing gaff rig schooner built in 1921 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. It is also portrayed on the Bluenose postage stamp 50-cent issued by the Canadian government on January 6, 1929. The owners of the Bluenose were honoured in 1935 by having their schooner present when King George V reviewed the British Fleet at Spithead.
November 23, 2022
Wrong planchet - Errors and varieties
This error appears when a coin is struck on a planchet not intended for this particular design.
November 22, 2022
Nova Scotia - Several colonial tokens added
In the eighteenth century Nova Scotia received occasional shipments of English pennies and halfpennies. However, after the American Revolution the shipments became fewer, and after 1795 they stopped altogether. In the early nineteenth century the colony was so short of copper coinage that, about 1814, some of the individual merchants of Halifax began to import halfpenny tokens from England to alleviate the chronic shortage of small change.
November 21, 2022
10 cents 1902 to 1936 - Price guide and values
On reverse, the St. Edward's crown was replaced by the Imperial State crown. Edward VII is on the obverse from 1902 to 1910. From 1911 to 1936, George V, bust facing left, appears on the 10 cents coin.
November 21, 2022
Dominion of Canada banknotes from 1923 to 1925
The 1923 25-cents banknote was issued to replace the issue of 1900. Only the design on front was modified. $500 and $1000 1925 banknotes of Dominion of Canada was issued to replace the 1911 banknotes.
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