Can You Dig It? - Canadian Silver Nickel
Published by Larry on Tagged 1900's Coins, Give-A-Ways, Promotional
June’s dug coin give-away features a Canadian coin that had only a 2 year mintage. From 1858-1921 Canadian nickels were silver coins. In 1922 Canada changed medals and the 5 cent coin became nickel and remained nickel up until WWII when nickel was needed for the war effort and steel became the medal during the war time. This month’s coin give-away is a 1920 five cent piece. The 1920-21 coins were silver but moved from sterling (92.5 %) silver down to 80% silver and 20% copper. The obverse is King George of England and the coin weighs 1.167 grams and is a round coin of 14.494 mm. The mintage of 1920 was 10.6 million coins.
This coin is one of three Canadian silver 5 cent pieces that I dug up at a Clearwater, FL Beach park a few years ago when I had a one day hunting opportunity before an urban renewal project eliminated that park. Hundreds of US and other country coins were dug that day by the members of a high school metal detecting club that I sponsored. I personally found coins of eight countries with dates ranging from 1892 to about 2000. The other two silver 5 cents pieces are dated 1903 H and 1904. To qualify for the drawing this month leave a comment on any of the nearly 60 posts on this blog. The give-aways are done on the 15th of each month.
May 30th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Wow, your are truly a gentleman and a scholar sir! Very generous of you to do the giveaways. Great site too, very informative! Keep it up!