Coins of my father's: Pennies

in coins •  7 years ago  (edited)

My dad was a pretty avid coin collector and I picked up his Canadian coin collection when he passed in 2008. He traded and bought a lot of coin lots then would resell rolls of specific coins to fund his next coin purchase. The majority of what I have consists of these rolls of coins. I also have his books of coins, what he considered to be his main collection. I'd love to be able to complete it, but unfortunately I don't have the funds to go after the more expensive missing coins and I don't have the knowledge he did to properly price and sell the "reselling stock" he had. I do have a list of the rolls of coins I have and I can do some research on the value if anyone is interested in fairly buying or trading some of them for the missing pieces of the main collection.

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The 2nd series of pennies

Unfortunately there were no pennies from the first series from 1858-1920 but I have the majority of the 2nd series from 1920 when the penny took it's current size to 2012 when it was taken out of circulation.

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First page from 1920-1953

The majority of the missing coins are from the 20s as would be expected

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1920 penny. Oldest one I own. Crazy to think it's almost 100 years old

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1936-1937 design change due to new dies being needed for the King George VI

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1954-1985

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Canadian Centennial commemorative edition

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1986-2012

Canada stopped minting pennies in 2012 and have eliminated them from circulation. Transactions are now rounded to the nearest 5¢.

Speaking of 5¢, keep an eye on my feed for the next entry which will feature nickels from 1922 to today.

Missing pennies
1921-1928
1930-1931
1935
1938-1939
1954
1985
2006p
2007 non magnetic
2008
2009-2012 magnetic and non magnetic

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What a great collection! Nice to have something he worked hard on.

Thank you! I'd like to be able to finish his work. I have family in Canada gathering the ones from 2008 and after to get the set up to date. Also, I'm working on posting the nickels set. I have a book for every denomination.

Impressive collection in your two posts.

Hopefully you can earn a few $$ on steemit to help the purchase of the missing ones.

That would be very nice. If I can I want to complete the nickels set first but really I'd like to finish all of them.

Good luck!