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Do you mean aside from a bunch of dirty hands and the grass where it was said to be found?
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United States
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What a awesome ending. Seems like a one-of-a-kind situation to me. Buy the holder, not the coin... Deserves an article somewhere. KoolKat, I'm glad you were vindicated. Really cool outcome.
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Pillar of the Community
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Greatest coin story I've heard in a very long time. Glad they got it back to you. Thank you for sharing that.
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China
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Think of what those dirty hands have seen...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Ha, the CCCS verification centre cannot find it. That doesn't help this thread at all.  |
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Canada
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CCCS probably just haven't updated their website, the slab and label is what CCCS looks like
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Did CCCS just give up on hearing from the mint? Or did I miss a post about that?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Read a couple pages back CCCS answered that the RCM was not forth coming and it seems the owner wanted his coin back so he graded as the label says, unfortunately the RCM is producing a 2017 polar bear design. |
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You mean the RCM _was_ producing a 2017 polar bear design, in 2016. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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There was hope the RCM due to 2017, Canada being 150 years, they were going to issue special circulating coins and not the regular designs but now we know there is a least the polar bear design in sets as some collectors have already received the 2017 sets so it's not that unusual for the RCM to produce 2017 coins in 2016. Although the story is cool, this coin is what it is Edited by john100
01/19/2017 01:00 am
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It's really a great story. Possibly someone toured the mint during production at an unknown time and was given a sample 2017 toonie, then lost it in the grass. KoolKat finds it while metal detecting, even though the odds of that happening are incredibly slim. But for one part - I'm unimpressed with CCCS's role in this saga. Sure, months later once RCM began advertising the gift sets with 2017 regular loonies it's a no brainer that the coins were minted in 2016 if not earlier. But otherwise CCCS queries were shunned by RCM and I'd wonder the reason RCM chose not to cooperate. Or why CCCS can't tell if a toonie is real or fake without RCM involvement. Neither this situation nor the "gold" silver dollar reflect well on the caliber of error certification by CCCS, in my opinion. Edited by wildflowerAB
01/19/2017 06:23 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Just wondering if the RCM had changed the metal compositions on the 2017 Toonie and loaned a few rolls out to the vending machine companies to test in their vending machines? Remember the 2000P dime. |
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Thank you for the update, XWLCoins.  |
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The main reason the RCM doesn't want to answer questions regarding this coin is simply how did this coin leave the mint, something they really rather not know. Either this coin was simply dropped on the floor and an employee just picked it up and threw it into a 2016 bulk bin or something else worst happened. Except for the 2013 RCNA tour where we were allowed access to the production floor although escorted by security, the regular tour is outside catwalk through windows, only thing you can buy is at the boutique. As for vending test pieces, never heard of new sizes or weights of 2017 toonies, the RCM probably has learned from the 2000P test coins not to create vending test coins with exact production designs, some vendors just kept them as in 2000. |
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I don't normally quote myself however... Quote:Just wondering if the RCM had changed the metal compositions on the 2017 Toonie and loaned a few rolls out to the vending machine companies to test in their vending machines? Remember the 2000P dime. I think it is the most logical explanation to date.  Edited by darryldarryl
01/19/2017 11:59 am
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