I find the canadian mintmarks strange. "P" is for steel nickel plated while "W" is for Winnipeg. I just find it odd that one mintmark is used for describing its contents and the other tells the location of there it was minted. David
I do aswell, I am not sure why they started doing this. The strange this is that you can get coins with the "WP" mark on them.
If a mint mark is intended to indicate where a coin is minted then the "P" on some Canadian coins is not really a mint mark since it indicates that the coin is plated. Normally circulating coins are minted in Winnipeg and collector coins in Ottawa. Perahaps beacuase of capacity problems some collector coins were minted in Winnipeg and given a "W" mint mark.If the coin was also plated the mark was "WP". While this is interesting I don't really see it as strange.
I have got 2 Canadian 5c. coins dated 2001.The one without the 'P' is the cupro-nickel one,but the one with the 'P' below the Queen's portrait is really shiny.I have been informed that it is the plated one.I have never seen a coin with either 'W' or 'WP'.
I guess I am trying to say that the markings are somewhat inconsistant. The "letters" should either be where the coin was minted or for the content. But to have both is somewhat unusual. Someone could get the misconception that the "P" was minted in some city that starts with a "P" and not realise its for the content. David
Are you from Mars, or from someplace completely outside the Solar System David? Since you apparently expect logic and consistency from a government agency you can't possibly be from Earth.
