Wow just learned something new about Canada victory 5 cent 1944 Km#40a, It has a coded message on it.

Just going though some coins and looking at a 1944 v 5 cent coin. I saw the breading ,I thought was all mess up. To find out the 1944 and 1945 V 5cents Km# 40a the breading is Morse code saying "We win when we work willingly" Have you ever come across any other coin with a coded message on it.


yours daryl

This is awesome!

Czech 10 Koruna with Braille letters does not even comes close to that! https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6667.html

I know Jarcek it really just off the wall they did that.

Impressive.

Oh, Jarcek, you received a request to add this Braille lettering as available in Numista to upgrade the file.

Done, never noticed that.

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

This is the kind of informative gem that makes numismatics so enthralling. I learn something new every day and love every minute of it.

wow...that is really neat, it makes the mind wonder what else is in plain site that we haven't noticed yet. Great facts Daryl.

Learning something new everyday, keep 'em coming!

This is a great example of how history is different for us all.

At my last coin club meeting, a gentleman did a talk on the Canadian 5 Cent piece. When the War Nickels were on the screen and the Morse code denticles were discussed, easily half the room (in unison) said We Win When We Work Willingly (quite comical, actually).

The first with this message was the 1943 5 cent made of tombac, rather than the Chromium plated steel of 44 and 45.

If you have a 1944 Tombac, be very happy. Only 8,000 minted and only 1 certified by Canuck grading services.

Thank you Peter M . Graham I did not know anything about this and found it interesting

Цитата: "Peter M. Graham"​This is a great example of how history is different for us all.
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​At my last coin club meeting, a gentleman did a talk on the Canadian 5 Cent piece. When the War Nickels were on the screen and the Morse code denticles were discussed, easily half the room (in unison) said We Win When We Work Willingly (quite comical, actually).
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​The first with this message was the 1943 5 cent made of tombac, rather than the Chromium plated steel of 44 and 45.
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​If you have a 1944 Tombac, be very happy. Only 8,000 minted and only 1 certified by Canuck grading services.

I can only hope someone overheard and thought they were wandering by some sort of cult.

​I managed to find a Tombac 5 cent piece (1942) awhile ago, sadly not a Victory Nickel, but the colouring is very attractive and it keeps the image very sharp.

Thank you ALLRED1050 for the information! Now I definitely want a Canadian Victory Nickel. Those Canadians are a crafty bunch, and I can't wait to hear about more coin codes.

Цитата: "Peter M. Graham"​If you have a 1944 Tombac, be very happy. Only 8,000 minted and only 1 certified by Canuck grading services.

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Yes, my father is the current owner of the one and only 1944 Tombac Canadian 5 Cent Piece. As you may have read in the April 17th issue of the Canadian Coin News, he will be putting it up for auction on eBay this month. If you have an interest in following the auction, please send an email to tombacnickel@gmail.com to be added to the launch announcement list--You will be provided a link to the auction page.
You can also follow @TombacNickel on Twitter for more info.

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Цитата: "Peter M. Graham"​If you have a 1944 Tombac, be very happy. Only 8,000 minted and only 1 certified by Canuck grading services.

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​Yes, my father is the current owner of the one and only 1944 Tombac Canadian 5 Cent Piece. As you may have read in the April 17th issue of the Canadian Coin News, he will be putting it up for auction on eBay this month. If you have an interest in following the auction, please send an email to tombacnickel@gmail.com to be added to the launch announcement list--You will be provided a link to the auction page.
​You can also follow @TombacNickel on Twitter for more info.

​Welcome to the site!

Wow, that's impressive! The only certified 1944 tombac 5¢! I have not yet purchased my copy of the latest CCN but will do so.

I see that you are helping sell your fathers nickel, I assume you googled tombac nickel to find this old forum post. It’s a good plan, you even have website and email address named after it!
What are you projecting to sell it for?
You won’t find any high rollers speaking up in the forum, but I’m sure there’s a couple guys here that could get it if they wanted to, do it a good way for you to spread the word!

Can we get a photo of it? That’s all the rest of us can afford..... a photo

Canadian coins are worth great of value and are nice beautiful coins for collecting. The Braille coded message looks wonderful on edge.

It's one of my very favourite coins;hamradio,and particularly telegraphy are my hobbies too :)
Curious to see news how the auction on the unique one will go,guess it's going to be an impressive one:)

Very cool Daryl. Your post are always worth reading. Looking forward to the next.

After reading this ,This coin is in my wish list...hope to get some day.Thank you for this information.

Wowsers!
The vendor of that coin has balls. US$750,000; starting bid US$400,000 (=C$ 526,579)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1944-Georg...AOSwomVa5ih0

Didn't sell, tho.

So was it a publicity stunt? To gain a larger audience and maybe find the one person who is willing to part with $400K?
The marketing strategy has tones of a professional businessperson.

Цитата: "Wealth101"​Wowsers!
​The vendor of that coin has balls. US$750,000; starting bid US$400,000 (=C$ 526,579)
​https://www.ebay.com/itm/1944-Georg...AOSwomVa5ih0
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​Didn't sell, tho.
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​So was it a publicity stunt? To gain a larger audience and maybe find the one person who is willing to part with $400K?
​The marketing strategy has tones of a professional businessperson.
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​Is it just me, or the link actually doesn't work? Unless I don't know all the tricks of the trade, eBay now makes it almost impossible to find older items -- i.e. items that were sold or removed.

I must admit if I had a unique coin, I would as well try to publicize it as much as possible. Yet the starting bid of US$ 400K seems to me ridiculously high. I wouldn't be surprised they first contacted an auction house which advised for a much lower starting bid, but they didn't like it and decided to do it on their own... Just my hypothesis...

Right you are!
I tried the link in my post and it didn't work, so have spent the past 20 minutes trying to track down the original post that contained the link. Couldn't find it yet. But that was earlier today, and the link took me to the ebay site and showed the auction details (no bids).

Here's a link to that same coin sold by Heritage in August 1999. So in one respect, I was right: the current vendor in 2018 bought this coin in 1999 (for $58,000 I believe) and is now flipping it for $400,000.

https://coins.ha.com/itm/world/george-vi-tombac-5-cents-1944-bust-left-large-v-with-the-dat/a/208-5828.s

And here's a link to an article written by Ken Potter, giving the history of that particular coin, first auction in 1982 for US$7,000, then offered (by Heritage) in July 1999.
http://psestamp.com/articles/article_view.chtml?artid=1146

The link is >
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/123107055391
that is the short version, or >
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1944-George-VI-Tombac-Canadian-5-Cent-Piece-Tombac-Nickel/123107055391?hash=item1ca9c0971f:g:W5kAAOSwomVa5ih0

Цитата: "ZacUK"​ The link is >
​https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/123107055391
​that is the short version, or >
​https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1944-George-VI-Tombac-Canadian-5-Cent-Piece-Tombac-Nickel/123107055391?hash=item1ca9c0971f:g:W5kAAOSwomVa5ih0
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​Excellent. Glad you were able to find the UK posting. The link I went to showed the US$ ebay version. Maybe it deleted itself after the hit.

And here is the USA ebay listing I was looking for:

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/1944-George-VI-Tombac-Canadian-5-Cent-Piece-Tombac-Nickel/123107055391?hash=item1ca9c0971f:g:W5kAAOSwomVa5ih0

So I was correct; this is the very same coin sold by Heritage in 1999 for ~US$50,000 and that was sold in 1982 for the first time for US$7,000. Note that in the May 2018 ebay ad, it has the original Heritage Lot number 5828 on the slab. Same as the 1999 Heritage posting link posted in my earlier post above.

The US ebay ad ended May 6, 2018. It looks like the UK ad was placed May 7, 2018.

The link works -- excellent and thanks, Zac!

It is a circulated coin, which is interesting. And Charlton lists it as a circulating coin, not a pattern or error or some other thing like that.

So... will it show up again on eBay or at some auction house? I wouldn't be surprised if some of them contacted the owner...

EDIT -- And thanks Wealth101 for the new link.

Note it's the same auction: it just ended into the next morning, UK time.

Yes, I erred. It did end May 7 UK time.

So here's a thought. What if the vendor faked the coin and the slab; in that instance, he cannot put it into a reputable house auction. If he bought it in 1999 for $50,000, then probably a normal increase in value might be to $100,000. The original 1982 purchaser for $7,000 stated in a news article that he was willing to pay $20,000 to $25,000 to get the coin. That person sold it for ~$50,000 in 1999, 17 years after buying it. So it's surprising it wasn't listed for $100K - $150K.

I purchased a faked PCGS slab for a fake Morgan. I was not familiar with Morgans or PCGS, but a local dealer showed me how it was faked. Apparently easy to do with modern technology.

Look on Numicanada, too. Some people, there too, question the authenticity. I thought I would find it on the PCGS website with the ID number (9279377), but no... Yet I think it would be very difficult to try to pass a fake in this way. We have the identity of the owner. It's not like an anonymous Chinese company that you cannot trace back.

Here is a cheap version:

1944 tombac no doubt it's authentic

I'm sure it's authentic -- it's from AliExpress!! Wait, they say COPY...