The Alberta Prosperity Certificates. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 Depressions and hard times usually give rise to a number of experiments designed to alleviate the distress, with those concerning money in the van. The “Dirty Thirties” in Canada and the U.S. were no exceptions and while various forms of “Depression […]
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Notes of the Mafeking Siege. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 It was all a matter of gold and imperialism but by the early 1880s, many of the “Cape Dutch” of South Africa had retreated north in the “Great Trek” to found their own “South African Republic”, leaving the British in […]
The Saint-Maurice Ironworks Dollar. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 “Collectors’ Dollar”, 1988, commemorating the Saint Maurice Ironworks. Silver, .500 fine. Wgt.: 23.3 grams. Diam.: 36.07mm. Reeded edge. Die axis: Obverse: (Designer) Arnold Machin; (Modeller) Patrick Brindley Reverse: (Designer) R.R. Carmichael; (Modeller) Sheldon Beveridge Production: 259,230 cased proofs originally sold at […]
The Esso “Play Coins” of Australia. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 Every so often, plastic tokens with obverses similar to the above show up, leading us to wonder what they are. They are actually a sort of play money given away to children by the Esso Oil Company stations in […]
The First Foreign Issues of the Ottawa Mint. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 It’s quite true that it’s an ill wind that blows no one any good – and this was true even of the international disaster called the First World War. The war proved to be very, very good […]
Aluminum – The Poor-Relative Coinage Metal. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 When it comes to being a coinage metal, we tend to think of aluminum as one of the “junk” metals, ranking just ahead of zinc. Everything conspires to make this so: it is used only by second- and third-world […]
The Calgary Commemorative Silver Dollar of 1975 By: MICC Lifetime member #001 Calgary was founded for one overriding purpose: location. Immediately after he had the power to do so after Confederation, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald moved to establish a Canadian presence in vast unsettled area of the Prairies. His […]
The “Tree Cents” of Prince Edward Island. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 For many years, the local currency pound of Prince Edward Island was out of step with those of the rest of her neighbours who typically used “Halifax Currency” whereby a dollar (U.S., Spanish-American or Spanish) was valued at […]
Genoa Bay Farm By: Ron Greene (From Transactions of the Canadian Numismatic Research Society, Vol. 4, 1968, p.43. Reprinted by permission). Genoa Bay Farm is situated in a very pretty little valley overlooking Genoa Bay about eight road miles east of Duncan. The farm is owned and operated by Mr. […]