Toned 1966 Voyageur silver dollar, small beads mule.

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I just put my latest Canada dollar find on ebay;

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=300277593906

 

It's a 1966 small bead obverse which, as I understand it, is a mule struck with the 1965 obverse die which had the small beads and the 1966 reverse die. I read that around 500 of these (Krause states 485) were sent to a branch bank and got into circulation while a few were packaged with prooflike sets.

 

This one I found is definitely a prooflike obverse strike with an ordinary looking reverse. The coin is toned pretty nicely w/ cobalt blue shading in the darker areas on the rims.