A staple of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association (RCNA) Convention will make a comeback this July as the in-person gathering returns to Ottawa following a two-year pandemic hiatus. With 12 presentations over two days, the RCNA’s 2022 educational symposium is expected to regain its pre-pandemic form at the upcoming convention, slated for July 20-24 (“RCNA Convention... Continue reading →
Five medals named to Toronto-born Second World War flight sergeant William Hugh Magill, of the ‘Bison Squadron,’ are expected to bring $6,000 at a June 12 auction hosted by Colonial Acres.
A group of five Second World War medals, including the prestigious Distinguished Flying Medal, will cross the block during a June auction in Kitchener, Ont. Instituted for the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth in 1918 and discontinued in 1993, the medal recognized “an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty performed whilst... Continue reading →
As part of this summer’s Royal Canadian Numismatic Association (RCNA) Convention, the Royal Canadian Mint will send designers, engravers and other technicians to the bourse. At the 2019 convention in Calgary, artist Michelle Grant (shown) was on hand to promote the Calgary Stampede coin she designed.
With just two months until the show opens, collectors are gearing up for the first in-person convention of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association (RCNA) since 2019. For the eighth time in its 72-year history, the RCNA will hold its annual gathering in Ottawa, which played host to past conventions in 2016, 2008, 2000, 1976, 1967,... Continue reading →
A 1954 $50 radar note with a ‘solid eight’ serial number reading ‘B/H8888888’ sold for $12,650, doubling its estimate as Lot 1148 of the April 8-9 Premier Auction.
Canadian paper money continued to attract bidders’ attention at Colonial Acres’ latest Premier Auction. One of the only major in-person auctions held in Canada since the pandemic began, it saw more than 1,300 lots cross the block at Trajan Publishing’s National Postage Stamp & Coin Show in Mississauga, Ont. Despite ongoing pandemic concerns, the sale’s... Continue reading →
Trajan Publishing held its National Postage Stamp & Coin Show on April 9-10 in Mississauga, Ont., for the first time since 2019.
After a 31-month pandemic hiatus, collectors and dealers returned to the Greater Toronto Area this April for the first National Postage Stamp & Coin Show since 2019. With virtually all of Ontario’s pandemic restrictions lifted by mid-March, the two-day show kicked off on April 9 at the Hilton Mississauga/Meadowvale hotel in northwestern Mississauga, Ont. An... Continue reading →
A west-coast dealer owns a 2017 silver proof set with artificial toning, which occurred on some silver coins issued by the Royal Canadian Mint from 2011-18.
The Royal Canadian Mint has confirmed some of the silver coins recently featured in CCN are discoloured rather than mistakenly gold plated. After a west-coast dealer reported a similar-looking silver coin – one of many he owns with what he believed to be artificial toning rather than a gold-plating error – CCN contacted the Mint. “I... Continue reading →
The first issue of what was then known as Canada Coin News hit the newsstands in June 1963.
Published for the past 59 years, CCN has reached its 60th volume with the latest issue, dated April 12. On June 3, 1963, Wisconsinite Chet Krause – soon to be a renowned coin collecting icon – launched one of his first endeavours, Canada Coin News. While Krause lived in Iola, Wisc., the publication’s first editor was a... Continue reading →