www.canadiancoinnews.ca Canadian Coin News CANADIAN An essential resource for the advanced and beginning collector Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/canadiancoinnews COIN NEWS Follow us on Twitter @trajanpublisher Volume 52 • Number 08 July 29 - August 11, 2014 $3.50 Circulating coin recalls costliest conflicts The government has ap- show a partial reproduction proved a new circulating $2 of the photograph in the coin, as well as two new, sig- centre, and the outer ring nificantly greater, denomina- will have the words “re- tions of non-circulating legal member” in English and tender coins. French, with two laser-mark An order in council, issued maple leaves. The edge will July 2, has authorized coins have the words “Canada” with the values of $1,000 and and “2 dollars,” with maple $1,250, and the issue of a $2 leaves. coin, using the famous image According to the Royal Ca- Wait For Me, Daddy, taken in nadian Mint’s statement, the Steven Bromberg, left, and Leslie Moore, right, assist as Chuck Moore opens the first 1940, which shows a young coin will be part of a com- session of the Canadian Legacy Sale. boy catching up to his father, memorative circulation coin who was marching with his program to mark the centen- regiment. nial of the First World War As a circulating coin, de- and the 75th anniversary of Chartered notes reach sign details are outlined in the Second World War. new heights at Toronto sale the order. The coin will Continued on page 11 By Bret Evans Conducted by Canadian $5 1872 in VG-10 sold for t least 15 chartered bank- Coin & Currency and Moore $34,500, while the rare and Anotes hit record prices at Numismatic Auctions, the sale highly sought after Molson’s the massive June 26-28 Can- spanned nearly 3,000 lots in Bank 1871 $6 and $7 notes in adian Legacy Sale in downtown three sessions. Two companies, Good to Very Good condition Toronto, according to the auc- led by Charles Moore and Ste- sold for $24,150 and $27,600 tioneers. ven Bromberg, were conducting respectively. The 1911 Wey- an auction together for the first burn Security Bank $20 was time. one of the notes which is rare The sale featured many coins in any grade, but this “finest Publications Registration Mail No. 09137 Publications Registration Mail No. 40069699 No. Agreement and banknotes that had not known” example in About Un- been seen on the market for circulated condition was hotly years or even decades, includ- contested by multiple bidders, ing the first part of the Ron and ended at more than Greene collection of Canadian $26,000. More than two dozen banknotes, and the Robert J. chartered notes brought more Kril collection of error coins. than $10,000 each, with strong The iconic Canadian photograph Wait for me, Daddy will According to Bromberg, prices across the board on most form the basis of a new Canadian $2 to be issued later there were several highlights in rare issues. this year. the sale, but the Canadian char- Continued on page 31 tered banknotes stood out. “High grades were not re- quired to support strong prices for notes that are rarely seen in any grade,” he said. 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