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ebrati el ng C CANADIAN 50 COIN NEWS YEARS Volume 51 • Number 06 July 2 - 15, 2013 $3.50 Louisbourg settlement’s 300 years marked by coins By Bret Evans From left to right: Royal he Royal Canadian Mint has Canadian Mint Board of issued two new coins mark- Directors member Kirk ingT the 300th anniversary of the MacRae and Parks Canada founding of the settlement of Field Unit Superintendant Louisbourg, on Cape Breton Is- (Cape Breton) Chip Bird land. unveil new gold and silver Founded in 1713 by 150 colo- collector coins honouring nists from France, the settlement the 300th anniversary of the quickly grew into a fortress with founding of Louisbourg at one of the largest military garri- the Fortress of Louisbourg sons in North America. Con- National Historic Site in struction of the fortification was Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. mostly done between 1730 and 1740. Eventually the population The reverse design shows the reached nearly 5,000 people. Frederick Gate, and images of The settlement’s strategic lo- cod and a ship. It was designed cation made it desirable to both by Peter Gough. the British and the French. The weeks. Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Amherst restoration of parts of the origi- tering containing the words The small coin weighs 1/25 of a British captured it in 1758, but it had determined that its capture nal town and fortress took place. “Louisbourg 300” and a repeat- troy ounce, with a diameter of was returned to France in return was essential before any effort One of the commemorative ing pattern of an anchor, fleur- 13.93 mm. It is struck in .9999 for the British trading post of was made to seize Quebec City. coins is a silver $20. de-lis, and Maple Leaf. gold with a mintage of 10,000. Madras, India, in the Treaty of In 1760, the British dismantled Designed by John Horton, it The coin is struck in .9999 sil- This is not the first numis- Aix-la-Chapelle. However, its the fortification, but kept a gar- shows a group of settlers in the ver with a weight of 31.6 grams matic tribute for the fortress. In presence led to the creation of a rison there for another eight foreground. Behind them is a and diameter of 40 millimetres. 1995, the Mint struck a $100 gold rival British port, Halifax. years. fisherman unloading cod, a large The mintage limit is 8,500 coins. coin to mark the 275th anniver- Louisbourg was captured The area was declared a Na- sailing vessel, and the skyline of The second coin is a gold 50- sary of the start of construction again in 1758, after a siege of six tional Historic Site in 1926, when the town. The coin has edge let- cent piece. of the fortress. W Hoard almost triples magnetic no mint mark 2006 cent population By Bret Evans ICCS since the variety’s discov- steel-core coins were identified Agopian’s discovery of a cility in Winnipeg, using its pro- Canadian coin dealer Ed Ago- ery. In 2006, as in most years of with a P mint mark, while zinc- high percentage of error coins prietary process. The zinc-core pian, of Imperial Coin and this millennium, the Royal Ca- core coins were left blank. concentrated in two boxes blanks are purchased from the Stamp in Hamilton, Ont., hit a nadian Mint produced coins A small number of steel-core lends strength to the theory United States, where they are windfall when he decided to go with both zinc and steel cores. coins turned up without the P that the error coins were mostly made by Jardine Industries, the through two boxes of 2006 one- The steel cores are referred to by mark, at first just a few, but now produced around the same same firm that supplies 1-cent cent coins. More than 500 exam- collectors as magnetic because more than 200 are known. It is time. It would also imply that blanks to the United States ples were of the rare no mint they are attracted to a magnet, not known if the coins were pro- one batch of steel-cored blanks Mint. mark magnetic variety. while zinc cores are not. In the duced because the wrong die got into the system at a time When the Winnipeg plating That amounted to 10 per cent second half of the year, both was used, or because the wrong when zinc cores were being plant was first created, the Mint of the 5,000 coins in the two types of coins were struck with planchets were used, or if they produced. received permission to produce boxes, and double the number the Mint’s “circle M” logo. Dur- were justCCC1212002 a few random BuyingEventAd_Dec3.pdf wrong The 1 steel-core 03/12/12 blanks1:39 PM are pro- coins using either zinc or steel known to have been certified by ing the first part of the year, planchet mistakes. duced at the Mint’s plating fa- cores. 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