Newfoundland 1942 cent

from the Stack's Bowers 2018 Collector's Choice sale, lot 70374

This specimen was lot 70374 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, May 2018), where it sold for $65. The catalog description^[1] noted, "CANADA. Newfoundland. Cent, 1942. NGC MS-64 RB. Lovely satin luster displaying attractive purplish and blue tone with plenty of underlying mint red. A beautiful example of this type, featuring a well engraved pitcher plant on the reverse. From the Trebuchet Collection." This specimen is a common date of a type struck in Ottawa, Canada, for the colony of Newfoundland 1938-47. Canada switched to small cents in 1920 but Newfoundland did not follow suit until 1938. 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: 1,996,889.

Specification: bronze, 19 mm diameter, designed by Percy Metcalfe.

Catalog reference: KM-18.

Source:

• 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, 47th Ed., Toronto: Charlton International, 1993.
• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio and Chris Chatigny, The May 2018 Collector's Choice Sale, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2018.

Link to:

• 1941-C cent
• 1942-C 10 cents
• 1943-C cent
• Coins and currency dated 1942
• return to coins of Canada, Newfoundland