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A daylong symposium featuring six numismatic topics plus a workshop on understanding wear on coins and grading banknotes may become an annual event in Calgary after its successful debut at Nickle Galleries. “The idea for this symposium was to create awareness for this hobby and on the numerous subjects that fall within numismatics,” said James... Continue reading →

Considered a ‘rarity among rarities’, a 1925 Dominion of Canada $500 banknote generated spirited bidding realizing $259,600 at Colonial Acres Spring Premier Numismatic Auction. With a presale estimate of $100,000, the $500 banknote (DC-28) bears the third-lowest serial number on record and, according to Colonial Acres, has never been offered up at auction. Certified by... Continue reading →

After forgoing its two top awards last year due to the pandemic, the Ontario Numismatic Association (ONA) returned to form with its annual convention this spring. At the ONA’s April 1 awards banquet, held on the convention’s second of three days, President Sean Sinclair and other officials recognized some of the association’s roughly 260 members... Continue reading →

Nearly two dozen notes from a long-running chartered bank founded in Montréal by the sons of an iconic brewing magnate have drawn the attention of notaphilists as they prepare to cross the auction block this April. In business as a note-issuing bank for 88 years, including seven decades operating under a charter, the Molsons Bank... Continue reading →

High-grade examples of Canada’s 1921 five- and 50-cent circulation issues, respectively known as the “Prince” and “King” of Canadian coins, comprise the centrepiece of a named collection slated to cross the auction block this March in Québec. The Canadian Numismatic Company (TCNC) is set to offer more than 1,950 lots across seven sessions on March... Continue reading →

Created in the mid-20th century to preserve Canada’s banking and financial history, the National Currency Collection (NCC) takes an egalitarian approach to its holdings, which include more than 130,000 artifacts from around the world. The NCC received its mandate in 1962 – three years after its creation by the Bank of Canada – to create... Continue reading →

The J. Douglas Ferguson Historical Research Foundation has launched a first-of-its-kind online repository of Canadian numismatic resources offering a freely accessible digital archive for researchers. The website, dubbed Canadian Numismatic Resources (CNR), is available at cnr-rnc.ca. Its creators hope the CNR will soon serve as the most complete resource of Canadian numismatic documents with at... Continue reading →

Since its humble beginnings in the late 1950s, the National Currency Collection (NCC) has acquired more than 130,000 economic artifacts from both private collections and institutional holdings. Today, the NCC’s material, which comes from around the world and spans four millennia, serves as the foundation for the Bank of Canada Museum. The museum displays about 1,400... Continue reading →

The president of the Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) has apologized for what she called a “regrettable mistake” after the firm accidentally sent one of its client’s coins through its restoration service. This summer, collector Daniel Sutton, of Granite Bay, Calif., submitted an 1890 silver crown – a British key-date coin – to PCGS for... Continue reading →