July Featured Pricing: Canadian Ten Cent Pieces

Greysheet continues to significantly expand the number and variety of items that have regularly-updated pricing data. In United States coinage, this has included thousands of varieties, but we also now cover worldwide paper money (under our Banknote Book brand) and we are growing our cataloging and pricing footprint for world coins as well. Print space limitations in the Monthly Greysheet preclude us from printing most of the pricing data we cover, however they are always available in our online pricing tool and app. For those dealers that are members, they are also available on CDN Exchange. The fact that some of this niche pricing does not get printed every month means almost by default it is overlooked and/or unnoticed by a percentage of our customers. We welcome feedback at pricing@greysheet.com.

This month’s Featured Pricing consists of early Canadian Ten Cent pieces. Like most other Canadian series, they were first struck in 1858 followed by a gap of 12 years before continuing in 1870. They feature a bust of Queen Victoria on the obverse with the denomination flanked by a wreath on the reverse, and were struck in .925 fine silver. Most all early dates are very scarce in high grade, as all dates from 1883 through 1898 feature a mintage of less than 1 million coins. To date, PCGS has recorded just over 200 grading events in MS65 to MS67 for the entire Victoria type. The key dates include 1884, 1889, and the 1893 Round Top 3 variety. All coins listed here without a mintmark were struck at the Tower Mint in London, while the 1871 to 1883 coins with the H mintmark were struck at the private Heaton Mint in Birmingham, England.