Greenstang

Just curious, what years are your sets?

The fact that there are no rims tell you that it was defaced after the coin left the Mint. If it was any type of striking error, the rims would still be present.

It can't be an error as that couldn't happen during the striking of the coin. Hard to say exactly how it happened unless you were there at the time but somehow a one cent coin was pressed into the surface either by accident or on purpose. Interested in what others have to say.

First of all I don't speak French. I don't live live in Quebec so I don't have any need to speak French.

Not quite sure what your point is but the Dollar was established as the unit of money in 1857 and was given the same intrinsic value as the US Dollar, so by your theory, Canada  borrowed the concept of the Cent, 5 Cent, 10 Cent, 25 Cent, 50 Cent and 1 Dollar coins so I guess we borrowed the complete concept as did many other countries that use the dollar as their monetary unit of money.  

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Now, who would imagine, much less accuse, the US government of stealing so blatantly and shamelessly? Lol 

Maybe it was just co-incidence.

Anyhow , FYI,  here is a photo of the twelve coins in one of several aftermarket holders.

That quarter as you mentioned was issued to commemorate Alberta's 100th anniversary of becoming a Canadian Province. There was also one issued for Saskatchewan the same year. These have nothing to do with the  the Provincial  and Territorial coins (total 12, one issued each month) celebrating Canada's 125th Anniversary of Confederation which were issued in 1992, 7 years before the US Statehood program. The word up here is that the US liked the idea so much, they thought they would copy the idea and issue a coin for each of the 50 states.

Is it a Small Date, that is the valuable one. A Large Date is normal.

Pictures would be nice though.