Does any one find any 1967 wild rabbits?

[henrysmedford]

We have been buying Canadian nickels and cents at a .8 face see -- http://www.realcent.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19409&hilit=+nickels and today we got a 1967 rabbit in the stack can you still find them in the wild in Canada?

A hopping rabbit was designed in 1967 to commemorate the Confederation.

[mtalbot_ca]

I keep them aside as I sort my boxes. So my grand total is 16 out of 55 boxes (210,000 nickels). They are as rare, in circulation, as the 1970 nickel (17 found so far) but with a mintage more than 6X greater (36,876,574 vs 5,726,010).

The ones that I find are in great shape. They seem to be kept for their distinctive design, then release just to be recatched by someone else. So they do not seem to circulate very much.

Cheers,

[frugalcanuck]

I second mtalbot's theory. I think I find them a bit more often though. I have a few rolls of rabbits but still working on my first '70 roll

[henrysmedford]

They are as rare, in circulation, as the 1970 nickel (17 found so far) but with a mintage more than 6X greater (36,876,574 vs 5,726,010).Cheers,

We are at zero on the 1970 nickels! But we have a large number of the King George V we have found.

[henrysmedford]

As all of are Canadian is free are bought at a .8 face we have found zero of these dates also. Are they hard to find in Canada also in the wild.
1923
1925
1930
1931
1933
1937
1943
1948
1970
1996
1997
2000
2002
2003
2005
2011
2012

[nero12345]

they are something i pull and put in a separate container. i wouldn't say they are any more rare than the 1966 or 1968. i just think they are kinda cool. if there is any years you're looking for as far as canadian nickels go, just drop me a line. I owe ya a few. They do go nice in a set from 1967. i'm sure you know all 1967 canadian coinage had animals on them, particulary animals found up here in north.

Merry Christmas

[mtalbot_ca]

1923 - Nerver found
1925 - Nerver found
1930 - Nerver found
1931 - Nerver found
1933 - Found 1
1937 - Found 6
1943 - Nerver found
1948 - Found 4
1970 - Found 15
1996 - Common (3 every box)
1997 - Common
2000 - Very common, 2000P less common (1-2 every box)
2002 - Very common
2003 - Very common
2005 - all types very common
2011 - Very common
2012 - Very common

Cheers,

[henrysmedford]

I got a roll of them at the coin shop today at a .8 of face.

[henrysmedford]

Update line through the one we found.

As all of are Canadian is free are bought at a .8 face we have found zero of these dates also. Are they hard to find in Canada also in the wild.
1923
1925
1930
1931
1933
1937
1943
1948
[1970
1996
1997
2000
2002
2003
2005
2011
2012

[fansubs_ca]

I found 1 per every $100 worth of nickles searched last time I did a big sort and kept track.

I think I was getting more than that about a year of two back.

I have a friend that likes them so I'd been saving some for them and not keeping all of
what I find.

I've shifted my focus recently from nickels to pennies, as the penny supply dries up I'll
shift back.

[henrysmedford]

I've shifted my focus recently from nickels to pennies, as the penny supply dries up I'll
shift back.

Can you still get pennies? I thought that the banks are sending them back.

[frugalcanuck]

they are still available.

good thing is, you are sure they are from consumers

[fansubs_ca]

I've shifted my focus recently from nickels to pennies, as the penny supply dries up I'll
shift back.

Can you still get pennies? I thought that the banks are sending them back.

I get a few every now and then when someone cashes some in at my credit union.
($15 worth this week.) However the "big 5" banks are sending in all they get as
soon as they get them and not letting anyone get them.

I also built a bit of a backlog to go through.

Oddly I actually had someone offer to buy my steel cored ones off me at face once
I've picked through for the ones I want for myself. Not sure why they want them,
they just do. So once I work through the stack I'll let them have most of my steel
core cents. (Keeping a few for exact payments plus a small sample of the better
condition ones for the coin collection.)

[Computer Jones]

I got 3 Rabbits in nice very condition yesterday.
The vault teller knows I like old coin and I will buy Canuk-A-Coin at US face.
Also got 4 nice '67 doves along with some.999 Canuk-A-Nickles and Canuk-a-Cents.
I passed on the .999 Canuk-A-Dimes, nothing older than '68 and those stuck to my magnet.

[mtalbot_ca]

I got 3 Rabbits in nice very condition yesterday.
The vault teller knows I like old coin and I will buy Canuk-A-Coin at US face.
Also got 4 nice '67 doves along with some.999 Canuk-A-Nickles and Canuk-a-Cents.
I passed on the .999 Canuk-A-Dimes, nothing older than '68 and those stuck to my magnet.

Beware my friend....there is a 1969 dime (large date, ie made with a 1968 planchet) which is worth over 10,000$

Cheers,

[Computer Jones]

Beware my friend....there is a 1969 dime (large date, ie made with a 1968 planchet) which is worth over 10,000$

Cheers,

I guess It's better to find out late than never.
I've added it as a side note to my cheat sheet of "Canuk-A-Coin Composition by Date".
Now, let the hunt begin...

[MetalJunkie]

Just got 58 of them in 3 rolls

Also in those three rolls:

1914 Buffalo nick
1946 jefferson
2009p

1943 tombac
1944 V x 13
1951 nickel discovery x6
1951
and a few other 12 sides

those three rolls were in a bunch of 20 that i picked up. I was surprised to say the least.

[henrysmedford]

Just got 58 of them in 3 rolls

Also in those three rolls:

1914 Buffalo nick
1946 jefferson
2009p

1943 tombac
1944 V x 13
1951 nickel discovery x6
1951
and a few other 12 sides

those three rolls were in a bunch of 20 that i picked up. I was surprised to say the least.

Is there a mint mark on your Buffalo.

[MetalJunkie]

^^^There is NO mint mark on the coin.....i was surprised as i could read the date

[cooyon]

Got another rabbit today at face at the LCS.

[Morsecode]

I pulled one off a magnet at the bank this week. Probably have close to a roll of them after two years of coin pulling. Funny, they always look AU/BU...never worn.

[henrysmedford]

The New York Times

July 21, 2013
Alex Colville, Leading Canadian Artist, Dies at 92
By WILLIAM YARDLEY

Alex Colville, a celebrated Canadian painter who revealed emotional and cultural tension in his spare and precise depictions of moments that might otherwise seem mundane — a middle-aged kiss through the window of a Honda Civic, a summer ferry ride, a surveyor taking the measure of marshlands meeting the sea — died on Tuesday at his home in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He was 92.

His death was confirmed by his son Graham.

Mr. Colville, who worked as an artist for the Canadian military during World War II, received international attention early in his career, including several gallery exhibitions in Manhattan in the 1950s and in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. His works are in many major collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Pompidou Center in Paris.

But at a time when the art world was tilting toward abstraction and internationalism, Mr. Colville was also something of an outsider, dedicated to figurative painting and to his native Canada, where he was revered by many as “painter laureate.” In 1965, he was commissioned by the government to design commemorative coins for Canada’s centennial. In his final decades, he collected a series of honors; most notably, he was named a Companion of the Order of Canada, a lifetime achievement award.

In 2004 the art historian Martin Kemp called Mr. Colville “the best Canadian artist of his time.” Comparing Mr. Colville to the English Romantic painter John Constable, he wrote, “He is a local painter in the sense that Constable was local, creating art that has to draw nourishment from scenes known intimately in order to find a wider truth.”

Mr. Colville was inspired by a range of figurative painters, including Edward Hopper and George Tooker, as well as Giotto. Throughout his career he pursued a synthesis of compositional exactness and psychological complexity.

Among Mr. Colville’s most noted works is “Horse and Train,” from 1954. The painting, which is on display at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, in Ontario, shows a dark horse galloping down railroad tracks, away from the viewer and into the path of an oncoming train. Mr. Colville has said the painting was inspired by a couplet written by the South African poet Roy Campbell: “Against a regiment I oppose a brain,/And a dark horse against an armoured train.”

Mr. Kemp, a professor at Oxford at the time, wrote about Mr. Colville in the journal Nature, focusing on his painstaking and mathematical process for accurately representing figures and landscapes in perspective. For his 2001 work “The Surveyor,” Mr. Colville spent 14 months making nearly 30 drawings and geometrical studies.

“Colville’s art is underpinned by his quest for order from apparent disorder,” Mr. Kemp wrote. “He searches, like Piero della Francesca in the Renaissance or Georges Seurat in the late 19th century, for what we can find beneath and within the surface of appearances if we probe intensively enough.”

David Alexander Colville was born in Toronto on Aug. 24, 1920. His family moved to Nova Scotia in 1929. He received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick in 1942 and enlisted the same year in the Canadian Army. He traveled to Europe as a military artist in 1944.

He was on the faculty at Mount Allison from 1946 until 1963, when he retired to paint full time. He continued to teach, however, holding visiting positions at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and in Germany.

In 1973, he moved with his wife, the former Rhoda Wright, to Wolfville, her childhood home. Mrs. Colville was frequently the model for female figures in her husband’s paintings.

“My mother was his muse,” Graham Colville said. “She was also a partner, very equal.”

The Colvilles had been married for 70 years when Mrs. Colville died in December.

In addition to his son Graham, Mr. Colville is survived by another son, Charles; a daughter, Ann Kitz; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Another son, John, died last year.

Graham Colville noted that while his father is closely associated with Canada, many of his first successes came elsewhere.

“It’s a strange sort of journey,” he said, “sort of starting outside of Canada and then coming home.”

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: July 24, 2013

An obituary on Monday about the Canadian artist Alex Colville misstated the name of the university in New Brunswick where he studied and later taught. It is Mount Allison, not Mount Alison.

[mtalbot_ca]

Thanks Joe for this post.

[Recyclersteve]

For the lot of nickels I'm going through, I'd guesstimate that the wild rabbits are 3-5 times easier to find than 1970's. Out of approximately 12,500 pre-82 nickels, I have found 17 from 1970. The wild rabbits have been so common that I'm not even setting them aside.

[JadeDragon]

The rabbits had a high mintage, but people saved them (and still do) because they are different. Therefore they usually have little wear because they spent less time in circulation. So many BU were saved they have Zero collector value, even in BU. I was saving them but after a few rolls worth they just go in the Ni bin. Usually see several in $100 worth of circulated.