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I have to do my homework on this one and must dig through my stuff. I will let you know what I find but it may take me a day or two. Thanks again for pointing this out..Don't you just love honest mistakes! They are so much better than the cooked up ones.
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Very very interesting. I check the 2004 Olympic Loonie, and the ring is correct.  HOWEVER, when I check the 2006 Olympic Loonie, I am NOT sure the ring is CORRECT or WRONG. Who can identify the design of 2006 Olympic Loonie?  |
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dodola...The 2006 looks INCORRECT to me.
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Holy cow! We are having a field day here..we should call it the day of discovery!
dodola's comments are right on the money. The 2006 Mark or logo is that of the COC or Canadian Olympic Committee. National Olympic Committees such as the USOC and the COC can be associated with coins but they are restricted to commemorating their Olympic team and not the Olympic Games themselves.
There is an error on the third ring upper right, i.e. the red ring as shown by wert, it has to pass under the green ring and not over.
So good on you dodola. If we keep this up we will have more varieties than Mexico '68 although this was not a Vancouver Games coin but rather in support of Torino '06.
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Canada
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The funny part is that they put the TM/MC mark on the WRONG version.
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If anyone has 2008 loonie's, take a look and see if it is constant to my 2008 loonie, which has the INCORRECT configuration of the Olympic Rings and post their findings here....Even though like Olympiccoinguy says, it could be a normal mistake made on all of the 2008's.
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Canada
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A bit more light on the subject which explains a little more. The 2010 Loonie was a VANOC coin with the VANOC logo, in other words an official Olympic Games coin and the design is reviewed and approved by the IOC. The 2008 Loonie was a COC coin and not a Vancouver Games coin and the Olympic Rings are part of the COC logo. The same is true for the 2006 Loonie. So the error is consistent and lies with the engraving of the COC logo which the Mint must have carried from 2006 to 2008. But that does not explain why the 2004 was correct and the next two were not!
By the way I have a 2008 COC branded Loonie and it is the same a wert's
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Good info update Olympiccoinguy...Now my next question is, are the same things happening with the Olympic designed quarters...That opens up another can of worms...  |
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Canada
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Probably not as they are VANOC coins and the problem seems to be the COC coins and they only did the Loonie and the Marks are different but let us know if you spot something :)
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Well the Canada 2007 curling quarter has INCORRECT Olympic Symbol configuration to....Seems it is more far spread than I originally thought.
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Canada
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OK I found my circ quarters and had a look at the curling coin but for the life of me I can't see any change in the VANOC logo from the others. Help me out !
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Canada
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Ok, I am finally with the programme. There were TWO curling coins issued in 2007. One was PARALYMPIC. Those Games are run separately from the OLYMPIC Games and they have their own Mark thus the reason why that mark differs from the VANOC one. There is no connection between the two organizations other than the convenience of running the two Games back to back.
Sorry for the confusion o my side :)
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The Vancouver 2010 loonie Olympic rings are correct.
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