1880 Canadian 5-Cent

[garyf]

I found this well-worn 1880 Canadian 5-cent piece under a bush in my mother's front yard. It was about 2-3 inches deep. It's my oldest find so far. Mom let me keep it!

Does anyone know a good web site for Canadian coin values, number minted, metal content, etc? I haven't been able to find anything like the PCGS site for U.S. coins.

 

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[Colonial KirkPA]

Those fishscales are cool coins! Good job!

 

[artemis moon]

That's an amazing find! Congratulations!

 

[Green1]

holy smokes !! great coin there !!! congrads on your oldest .....

 

[John (Ma)]

nice find, congrats.

 

[Admiral de Salee]

I have a link at home that I'll post later. In the meantime, here's one site:

http://www.pcfleet.com/Coinclub/Canada/Can_coins-en.htm


Nice coin! I'm in Michigan too. Good to have these old 92.5 silver beauties here, eh?

 

[Mirage]

Very Sweet. I just found an 1870 Canadian Quarter a couple weeks ago. I found a nice site that had the canadian coin types values. Didn't bookmark it....I'll see if I can find it later.

Never mind - Admiral has it. I bookmarked it now.

Bob

 

[fuji]

sweet find 8)

 

[49er]

Nice find..here is a site for you....http://www.stanford.edu/~clint/cp/05.htm

 

[halfdime]

Nice find! My resource shows it less than $5.00, probably, but I'd be happy with a find like that.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Great find.

COngrats!

 

[Admiral de Salee]

49er posted the site I had bookmarked here at home.
Note what I just noticed--that the site was updated in 2005 and the prices were current 12/97 or something like that.

In order to make this a value-added post, I'll look up your silver nickel in my Standard Catalog of World Coins. Okay, here you go:

VG-8 - 6.00
F-12 - 12.00
VF-20 - 27.00

 

[tw656]

I found silver in ounces for the coin 0.0346. Check out, http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/Canada.html