1911 silver

[leslie(nova scotia)]

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!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/leslie19/006-40.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/leslie19/media/006-40.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/leslie19/007-32.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/leslie19/media/007-32.jpg.html)
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!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/leslie19/003-85.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/leslie19/media/003-85.jpg.html)
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!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/leslie19/005-48.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/leslie19/media/005-48.jpg.html)

[Tony Two-Cent]

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

Beautiful coin! Congrats, Les! :clapping:

[aloldstuff]

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

[Ronandari]

Ok Guys. Why do they call it a fishscale?

[leslie(nova scotia)]

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.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/leslie19/006-38.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/leslie19/media/006-38.jpg.html)

[Ronandari]

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

Ron