The Mid-Island Coin Club Celebrating 20 years with a Commemorative Medal MICC History It was a December 11, 2001, nineteen individuals gathered at the Pizza Hut restaurant in Nanaimo, BC for hot food and to discuss their shared passion of collecting coins. Before the evening was over, sixteen memberships were […]
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The Canadian Gold Coinage of Edward VII. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 After several years of agitation and a couple of actual construction, the establishment that was officially known as “The Royal Mint – Ottawa Branch” opened in that city in 1908, striking the first circulation coins on January 2nd. […]
The Commemoratives of 1927 By: MICC Lifetime member #001 The first major anniversary of Canadian Confederation – the fiftieth in 1917 – couldn’t have come at a worse time, in the depths of the First World War. Understand-ably, little time or effort was made in its celebration. Officially, the government […]
Currency of the Canadian P.O.W. Camps, WWII By: MICC Lifetime member #001 One of the most difficult collections to make is that of the currency issued in the various Canadian Prisoner-of-War camps during the Second World War. None of them were issued with other than a transitory purpose in mind […]
The Newfoundland Commemorative Dollar, 1949 By: MICC Lifetime member #001 Newfoundland had some financial woes, times being hard enough back in the ’30s that she was forced to revert to colonial status under Britain. For a while, things brightened during the Second World War as the air, naval and army […]
Transition Varieties of the 1978, 25 and 50 Cent Pieces. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 Nearly a quarter-century after the fact, we could logically assume that we know everything there is to know about the two varieties of Canadian 25-cent pieces that appeared in 1978: what were called the “Near […]
The 1974 “Extra Yoke” Dollars; Not Just One By: MICC Lifetime member #001 In 1974, Canada commemorated the centenary of the founding of the city of Winnipeg with commemorative dollars, both in “circulating” nickel and somewhat larger silver collectors’ pieces. The reverse design for both was essentially the same, Paul […]
The “Large Beads”/”Small Beads”, 1965 5-Cents. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 If you look in a recent edition of a standard catalogue, it will be noted that there are two varieties of obverse used on the 1965 5-cent piece, what are now called “Small Beads” and “Large Beads”. The former […]