Canadian silver

[Joe-Dirt]

Just feet from where I found my Chinese cash coins, I popped out an 1890 Queen Victoria dime😳 I wish I was American , it would have been seated and I ain’t never got me no seated dimes befer 🤨
I checked for the “H” mint mark, no dice😒 still a $20 coin😬

 

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[dbdsquared]

Congrats on the Silver!

 

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[Trezurehunter]

Very nice coin Joe. I'd take that one any day. Your Seated coin will show up when you least expect it.

 

[washingtonian]

That is awesome! You’ll get your Seated in due time. How many people can say they found a Victorian silver dime? Nice find!!

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Joe like others have said you will find seated. That's a great coin! It took me two years to find seated and then I found a second a month later. Being a Canadian found in Mass makes it a rarity of sorts. I have not found a Canadian silver yet. Nor a Canadian large cent... I basically want it all. HAHA! Congrats though!

This morning I found my second Connecticut copper in fill dirt with a 1889 IHP so I guess my seated will show up soon enough

 

[Joe-Dirt]

IHP and my second (smoked) Connecticut copper, my seated is coming, I can smell it

 

[Reanm8er]

"Semper Paratus" my brother! Seek and you shall find!

 

[Doug from NS]

An 1890 Canada 10 piece is much scarcer than an 1890 US Seated Dime (we never made dimes in Canada, just 10 cent coins).

Canadian mintage in 1890 was 450,000, in a VF-20 which that coin is, it has a currently trending book value of $150.00 Canadian ($115.00 USD) An 1890 Seated liberty from Philadelphia has a mintage of 9,911,541 and in a VF-20 has a value of $26 USD. So you did well there.

By the way, you missed it by 1 year, if that had been an 1889 instead of an 1890 in a VF-20 you would be looking at about $3500.00

The H is on the reverse, below the wreath (The Monarch is always on the front.) The H stands for the Heaton Mint in England. We didn't produce coins here in Canada until 1908. If there was no H they were produced in London.

That is a nicer Victorian 10 cent than any that I have found.

 

[Joe-Dirt]

An 1890 Canada 10 piece is much scarcer than an 1890 US Seated Dime (we never made dimes in Canada, just 10 cent coins).

Canadian mintage in 1890 was 450,000, in a VF-20 which that coin is, it has a currently trending book value of $150.00 Canadian ($115.00 USD) An 1890 Seated liberty from Philadelphia has a mintage of 9,911,541 and in a VF-20 has a value of $26 USD. So you did well there.

By the way, you missed it by 1 year, if that had been an 1889 instead of an 1890 in a VF-20 you would be looking at about $3500.00

The H is on the reverse, below the wreath (The Monarch is always on the front.) The H stands for the Heaton Mint in England. We didn't produce coins here in Canada until 1908. If there was no H they were produced in London.

That is a nicer Victorian 10 cent than any that I have found.

Thanks Doug!! I think I’m going to have a new fetish for Canadian silver. I didn’t really realize what I had until I posted it here. If it wasn’t going to 150* with 200% humidity today, I might go back a see if there are any more.
Thanks again!!

 

[fistfulladirt]

Way cool! I once found a 1900 Victoria dime in a coin roll.

 

[Hawks88]

That’s an awesome find. Congrats