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 […]
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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. […]
The Allied Military Certificate Replacements of Germany By: MICC Lifetime member #001 During WWII, the Allies issued special currencies for use in various areas recently retaken from the Germans. There were issues for Austria, Italy, France and Germany itself as well as another for Japan. A lot were issued and […]
The Fabulous 1804 U.S. Dollar. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 How very strange to realize that the most expensive coin in world is far from being the rarest; that it was not struck in 1804 but rather decades later – and on two occasions at that; that it never circulated […]
Camp Currency for “Displaced Persons” By: MICC Lifetime member #001 With the fall of the Nazis in May, 1945, Europe was in chaos with entire foreign populations residing in Germany and Austria, some wishing to be repatriated, many not. One large group was the Jews, survivors of the camps and, […]
The Anglo-American “Elephant” Tokens. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 The above is one of the major mysteries of English and American numismatics. There is no official record anywhere of its use and yet, as we shall see, there probably should have been. We can be fairly certain that the dates […]
Canadian Pattern and Trial Pieces of WWII. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 Unlike a lot of countries during the Second World War, Canada was not forced to issue many coinage denominations in other than the old pre-War format. There were two exceptions: the small bronze cent and the nickel five-cent […]
The Nazi Commemoratives. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 Adolph Hitler inherited an in-place, vibrant numismatic market from the very Weimar Republic he helped bury. Since 1925, the Republic had been issuing commemorative silver coins at the rate of one to four issues per year. Even when the mintage-sets were widened […]
Order of British Columbia. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 The Order of Canada was restricted to those few who had contributed outstandingly nationally while its inferior grade was the Member category at the local level. A number of provinces felt the Order restricted recognition of its citizens and therefore a […]