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2011 Canadian Silver Timber Wolf 1 Troy Oz Coin $59.95 The Royal Canadian Mint has placed a strict and and low mintage on these coins. With the unprecedented demand of these gorgeous .9999 fine silver coins in Europe and the rest of the world, these Timber Wolf coins will sell out very fast! The Canadian Timber Wolf coin is the first coin released in the Royal Canadian Mint’s 3-year long “Canadian Wildlife Coin Series” program. The obverse of the coin… |
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Home Coin Scale, x 0.1 Pennyweight, Ounce Weighing Balance $19.95 Platform size (2.5″ x 3″) is perfect for holding coins, rolls, small bars, gold nuggets, silver dollars, flakes & other bullion; it’s also great for scrap jewelry, metal-detector finds, & other small treasures! Easily convert your scrap gold/silver/platinum to TROY POUNDS (240 Pennyweights = 1 Troy Pound)! Ounce mode is great for postal shipments! High quality strain gauge load cell system makes i… |
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Totem Pole British Columbia Silver Coin Totem Pole From 1958 Haida Coast Native Indian Pacific Coast Totem Carvers Native Indian This silver dollar, with its bold design of mountains behind a totem pole typical of Pacific coast Native Canadians, marks the centennial of British Columbia’s establishment as a Crown Colony. In the early 1840s what is now British Columbia was part of the Oregon country and was controlled by the Hudson’s Bay Company. By a treaty signed in 1846, however, the territory was divided along the 49th p… |
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Hockey Canada $5 Currency Winter Scenes for a Unique Canada Christmas Card Canadian five-dollar bill The current five-dollar bill is dominantly blue in colour. The front features a portrait of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the coat of arms, and a picture of the West Block of the Parliament buildings. The reverse side depicts children engaged in winter sports, including sledding, ice skating, and hockey; this is accompanied by a quotation from Roch Carrier’s short story The Hockey… |
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Coin Collecting for Kids $14.99 A colorful, kid-friendly book to introduce children to a lifelong hobby, Coin Collecting for Kids encourages children to search for, save, and learn all about many different U.S. coins. Take a tour through the mint and save pennies from four different decades while learning about how coins are made. Slots on every page let kids collect birth-year coins, millennium coins, and twentieth-century coin… |
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Canadian silver quarters (1909-1967) — how to sell them?
Hi Everyone,
My fiance’s grandmother just gave us a few dozen Canadian silver quarters from 1909 to 1967. None of them seems to be a rare coin (the closest is one of the maple leaf marked 1947 quarters). They are all in pretty worn shape.
She suggested that we should sell them for their silver. How do we go about doing this? Do we take them to a coin collector for appraisal, or is there a better venue? We want to maximize the amount of money we can get for these, and I suspect that the silver is worth more than the coins themselves. Is there anything we should be sure to do?
Thanks for any help or advice you can offer. If it helps, we’re located in Vancouver, BC.
The coins might sell for more on eBay, but less the fees will probably be comparable to a coin dealer’s offer. I recommend you explore both options, and be sure to try more than one coin dealer. I hope that helps.
Buy Canadian Coin Collecting Hobby: Canada Silver Coins, Gold, Nickel, Dime
Let’s take a look at what I think are the gems of Canadian coin collecting. These gems are the gold and silver coins to begin with. The value of a gold or silver coin is not just evaluated on the rarity of the coin only, but is also evaluated on the metal which the coin is made of.
The worth of the gold or silver, which is in the coins, can be much greater than the coins’ dollar face-value by many times over. Take a small worn-out silver dime for instance, which some call a junk silver dime because the grade of the coin is so poor that it is not worth selling for the quality or beauty of the coin’s face and tail side. This small coin falls into a category all of its own, and is bought for the silver content most often.
Nowadays, you can buy a silver junk dime to begin your Canadian coin collection. This will only cost about one dollar on the open market. If the coin is just rare because of low mintage or a high grade; what holds up the price if the demand for that Canadian coin drops? The silver and gold coins will hold up because they are gold and silver. What if the price of metal drops, as well? You are smart and are the best one to answer that question, but I will add that silver and gold have never being at a zero dollar-value over the last thousand years. That means that there has been at least some demand for gold and silver for a very long time.
Collecting coins for the fun of having a piece of history, or something that is rare in your hand is the backbone of collecting coins in the first place. This hobby can be for the rich and the poor. Even some Canadian pennies that are just made out of copper can be worth thousands of dollars.
For the most part, collectible types of coins that are very expensive are for the very rich who don’t know what to do with the cash that is oozing out of their wallets. This is what brings coin collecting to life; when the rich invest in your hobby. Who knows, maybe you have a coin that many rich people want? Now that would be a thrill! Should you sell the coin, bragging about how you came across it and the whole works, or should you just tuck it away for safe-keeping? If you are going to share, you may want to keep it to people you can trust and not in the greedy ears of individuals who may want to keep your coin for themselves.
The thing that I like most about collecting Canadian coins is that you can have something that is valuable, fun, unique, and a piece of history; whether that be as expensive as a gold coin, or as cheap as a 1944 V nickel, or as simple as a 1967 centennial bird copper penny. And yet they can all fit easily into your pocket or into your secret hiding place that is meant for your little treasures.
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