1911 silver

Had some time to kill before Nogo had an appointment for undercoating so to the Dingle we did go. Overcast and the bugs were super bad . Took a bath in deep woods off and headed for the deep woods around the Dingle on the land side.
After a few crusty pennies out popped this little jewel!


After a few more hills, trails and tromping through the bushes feeding the bugs I left. Pointed Nogo to the nearest park and met up with a real hero...super hero in fact!

After 45 minutes the knee gave out along with a few other body parts so I limped back to Nogo and called it a day...no quota today!

No quote perhaps, but the fish scale should more than make up for that!

Beautiful coin! Congrats, Les! :clapping:

That fish scale looks great. Sorry about you not getting quota but you usually do.

Ok Guys. Why do they call it a fishscale?

Canadian five cent pieces till 1921 were made of silver and about the size of your baby fingers nail or as the fisherman said at the time size of a fish scale off a herring or such.

1921 most were taken back to the mint and melted....about a dozen 1921 are known to exsist. The new 5 cent piece (nickel is what it is made of thus we call the five cent piece a nickel) shows a big 5 on one side and the king on the other such as this one i found a week back.

Thanks Leslie. Everyday is a learning process here at AD.

Ron