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CAN IDA/ST. AMANT copper.

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Canada Start Price:300.00 CAD Estimated At:600.00 - 750.00 CAD
CAN IDA/ST. AMANT copper.
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CAN IDA/ST. AMANT copper. - Scott's Copper Coin Catalogue, 1890, it had been noted earlier on by McLachlan in 1889 A hoard of Canadian coppers. The hoard consisted of about five thousand coppers which had been sent to McLachlan, part of the original find in the Bank of Montreal vaults in their Quebec City branch which amounted to about twelve thousand pieces. McLachlan wrote: When I first examined this piece I was first inclined to throw it aside as an odd specimen stamped for amusement but, finding about sixty specimens in the hoard, all similarly, and that not over old coppers but on plain planchets evidently cut for the purpose, I concluded that it was a private tokens made for circulation ... Strangely, he only discusses the dated piece. VF. Ex-John Miner Coll.

Note this lot is part of the Richard Cooper Collection.