Canada 10 cents 1968 [επιλυμένο]

Hello,

the page https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces39248.html should be deleted: while in the comments stands “This coin minted in Philadelphia exists only in Nickel according to the 1968 US Mint Report”, coin is (wrongly) stated as being Silver (.500).

Similar (Nickel) Philadelphia mint coin exists as KM#73 (N#9201).

See my earlier post here:  https://en.numista.com/forum/topic153193.html and the other posts listed on the coin page. This has been an ongoing issue for many years. At least the completely fictitious KM# 73a has been deleted.

(Posted before reading rsirian1's comment.)

I tried some years ago to have the Philadelphia .500 silver page removed but apparently I failed to prove it doesn't exist…

Well… I'm telling you, a teapot is orbiting the Sun between Mercury and Venus. Now, please prove me that I'm wrong.

The burden of proof is of course on whoever makes a claim. Whoever claimed that Canadian silver dimes were struck at Philadelphia needed to provide reliable evidence. There is none.

Note also that the page in question, at the top right, gives the diameter as 18.034 mm, but 17.91 mm in the comments.

@StoneTemple123:  are you going to request a merger?  The OP provided evidence from the U.S. Department of Treasury records that only a nickel version of the 1968 Canadian dime was minted by the United States.  In addition, there is no KM number for a (fictitious) silver version minted from the U.S.

It looks like 13 years ago a Numista referee suggested that there are 4 varieties of the 1968 Canadian dime over on the french version of the Numista forums.  However it's been 13 years since then, and there is no 4th variety documented in the following most up-to-date sources:

Most current references:

• Charlton Standard Catalogue, Volume 1, 77th Edition (2024-2025), Pages 96-97
• Coins of Canada, 42nd Edition (2024), Pages 61-62
• NGC only documents 3 varieties as well:
  https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/search/1/?country=CANADA&nion=All+Regions&denom=10+Cents&date=1968

I agree with a merger, but…

I've just read the French posts on Numicanada (= the site Coins and Canada in French) where they reported the alleged Philadelphia silver dimes (you'll find the links at the bottom of the 1968 silver Philadelphia page). It's obvious that this is not reliable because those guys went back to their 1968 silver dime accumulations and now find the silver Philadelphia variety right left and center. These should be extremely rare. Obviously, identifying the two types of grooves at sight is unreliable — especially with circulated coins.

There's also a paper that is cited as evidence, from the Canadian Numismatic Journal, 2011. Well, sorry, the guy just claims, without evidence, that there's a silver-Philadelphia variety. The editor should have caught that and asked for supporting evidence, or else a footnte should have been added to state that the evidence is not much better than hearsay.

The ideal situation, for now, would indeed be to merge the two silver pages and add a comment that this alleged new variety is very doubtful and is not reported in the standard catalogues (Charlton, Haxby and Willey).

Merged :)

But the comments, year line comment and picture about the edges weren't deleted on N#383  so it's very confusing for those not familiar with this issue.

Why it is needed to delete them? 

No longer relevant. Why would you need to look at the edge to determine if the silver coin was minted in Ottawa or Philadelphia when Philadelphia made none of the silver coins?

Ok, I removed it.

Jarcek

Ok, I removed it.

N#383 

French comment removed as well.

Excellent. Thank you.