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[Coin collecting] - Made a neat find. Are these valuable?
Raziel
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Not sure if any of you fine folks partake in this fine hobby - I sure don't - but I made a potentially exciting find today.
So I'm at work and this old guy buys a sixer of cheap beer with a stack of Canadian quarters. A couple of them looked pretty old and felt weird, so I threw some of my change into the till and took the old coins. Once I got home, I did a little google searching, and it turns out that pre-1980, Canadian quarters were about 80% silver. The coolest of the bunch is a quarter from 1948 with the head of King George VI on it and the inscription "GEORGIVS VI DEI GRATIA REX" (which I guess means "George VI, by the grace of God, king.")
Now I'm wondering if these super old coins are at all collectible or valuable, or if I'm just sitting on a couple of old neat-looking bits of money from recent history.
So I'm at work and this old guy buys a sixer of cheap beer with a stack of Canadian quarters. A couple of them looked pretty old and felt weird, so I threw some of my change into the till and took the old coins. Once I got home, I did a little google searching, and it turns out that pre-1980, Canadian quarters were about 80% silver. The coolest of the bunch is a quarter from 1948 with the head of King George VI on it and the inscription "GEORGIVS VI DEI GRATIA REX" (which I guess means "George VI, by the grace of God, king.")
Now I'm wondering if these super old coins are at all collectible or valuable, or if I'm just sitting on a couple of old neat-looking bits of money from recent history.
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On the other hand you can make really neat rings with an anvil assuming your fingers are small enough with them by simply tapping the edges and making a hole. I highly doubt that they're valuable if they're less than 50 years old though.
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The new tools and matrices arrived from London, so the issuing of the Maple Leaf coinage ceased as a result. The obverse of the coins is inscribed GEORGIVS VI DEI GRATIA REX (George VI by the Grace of God, King). During the issue of this coinage, a commemorate silver $1 was struck in 1949 to commemorate Newfoundland becoming the tenth province of Canada. The 1948 coins are very scarce, especially the 50¢ and the silver $1. This is due to the slow delivery of the modified tools and matrices from London.
In this coinage, there are several notable varieties. The first of these is the 1950 "no lines in 0" 50¢ coin. The most famous variety of this series is the "Arnprior Dollar", which has one and a half waterlines near the bow of the canoe instead of the normal three waterlines. This variety is named after the town of Arnprior, Ontario, where this variety was discovered.
A pristing 1948 king george VI royal quarter is on this site for 3000 dollars. congratulations on your find, get it appraised by a coin dealer. put it in a plastic bag and don't scratch it.
Edit - Whew. Doesn't seem like 1943 quarters are worth that much. Have a old one just for the sake of it being old, and I'd hate to find out that I could have bought a car with it or something.
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It's pretty badly beat up, so it's likely not going to pay off my student loan or anything. I'm just glad I caught these neat old pieces of money before they were given away as change or handed off to a hobo.
Thank you, Rubacava!
Definitely get 'em appraised. I got mine done for free - I imagine you could do the same, somewhere.