Newfoundland 1911 50 cents
This specimen was lot 39070 in Stack's Bowers Winter sale (Baltimore, November 2015), where it sold for $763.75. The catalog description[1] noted, "CANADA. Newfoundland. 50 Cents, 1911. NGC MS-64. Lowest mintage for the four-year series at 200,000, with nearly all surviving examples showing some degree of wear. The coin offered here is one of fewer than a dozen seen at PCGS and NGC at this level or higher. A special coin on multiple levels with blistering bright white luster, razor sharp devices, and mark-free fields." This type was struck in Ottawa for Newfoundland in limited numbers 1911 and 1917-19 and is fairly available in grades up to extremely fine. This date is common. Newfoundland was admitted into the Dominion of Canada in 1949 and her separate coinage ceased. As a class, Newfoundland coinage is scarcer than equivalent Canadian coinage but collector demand for it is lower so it is often cheaper.
Recorded mintage: 200,000.
Specification: 11.78 g, 0.925 fine silver, .350 troy oz ASW, 32 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-12.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Cross, W. K., The Charlton Standard Catalogue of Canadian Coins, 62nd Ed., Toronto: Charlton International, 2008.
- [1]Ponterio, Richard, and Todd McKenna, The November 2015 Baltimore Auction, World Coins and Paper Money, featuring the Ray Czabor Collection and selections from the Strong Museum, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2015.
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