RCM New Release: 2017 1 Oz. Pure Silver Piedfort - 35th Anniversary Of Trivial Pursuit Game

Yes the RCM going over-board

interesting... I never realized this board game was invented in Quebec.

From Wikipedia:

Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions. The game was created in December 1979 in Montreal, Quebec, by Canadian Chris Haney, a photo editor for Montreal's The Gazette, and Scott Abbott, a sports editor for The Canadian Press. After finding pieces of their Scrabble game missing, they decided to create their own game.[1] With the help of John Haney and Ed Werner, they completed development of the game, which was released in 1982.[2]

Gimmicks and modern junk. Themes are unjustified.

Not sure of the purpose of this coin

One trivia, why celebrate 35th anniversary?! Ridiculous. 10, 25, 50,100 years I can understand, but 35 years? Can't wait for the 45th anniversary Trivial Pursuit coin in 2026.

Some others:

2005 - 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Flag SD
2005 - 60th Anniversary of the End of WWII SML (two of them)
2013 - 60th Anniversary of the Korean Armistice
2009 - 80th Anniversary of Canada in Japan $5 coin
2014 - 70th Anniversary of D-Day $10

Granted, many of those are note worthy events but non-tradition anniversary milestones.

I said it before but will repeat it here. The Trivial Pursuit coin is bizarre, both in design and subject; nice box though.

I not sure, did we have V-Day on 2015?
Which has to be "more celebratable" rather than D-day.




From this at least 2 very nice and affordable sets came out.
While 100-Anniversary gave a birth only to the "Coin and stamp set". Imo, it should be in opposite.

I've never been a fan of coins commemorating other coins. Why not just buy the original if you like the design? From what I've seen with the RCM NCLT issues so far, examples of the original coin can generally be found for less than the cost of the NCLT reproduction. (The 2011 SD commemorating the centennial of the 1911 pattern SD is a serious exception to my pricing statement.)

I have added a few such anniversary coins to my 36mm SD collection because the RCM has included such coins in the series, but I've passed otherwise - including all of the RCM's over-sized coins of the past couple of years.

Don't get me wrong, the big coins are attractive, but that's largely because the original coins were attractive. For me, that's enough of a reason to stick with the originals for my collection.

Well said, @Coinsplus!

When I first started into the hobby of NCLT collecting, you could "afford" to make the occasional questionable purchase.

At the very least, you could justify making the purchase to possibly "continue" a series of coins, ensuring you had the entire collection for a theme.

But.. back then, there were fewer than 40% of today's issues on an annual basis, and there weren't as many strange RCM anniversary / theme concoctions.

Now, dropping $120 on a coin with limited significance (ok... no significance, given it's the "35th anniversary") makes little sense to me.

It's been a while since I've seen it posted here on the forums... does anyone have a year-to-date tally of what completing the 2016 RCM "collection" would cost? Even if we eliminate the outliers (gold kilo coins), I bet it would take very deep pockets!

Edit: Corrected spelling mistakes... was too excited typing first draft.