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AgCoinAu: I am not going to ask which one?
This morning just after 10 a.m. when we got there, people were parking on the side of Lagimodiere and the neighbourhood across from the RCM. The line up of vehicles turning right towards the mint was long. I have never seen it this busy at the Mint before.
I basically gave up and we u-turn it out of there.
I went to the Vancouver location of the Royal Canadian Mint, and the line up was 2 city blocks long. It was such a hot day as well, and I had to wait for 3 hours. However, once I finally got to the doors of the Mint, they said that they ran out of stock and will not let anyone in despite there still being 30 minutes until closing time, 5:30 PM. I was very disappointed, and so were many other people, who crowded around the door of the Mint in protest with one person even threatening to call the police and the news agencies on the Mint employees for causing this long lineup and not giving everyone their chance to strike their own token.
I heard that people who started lining up at 7:30 AM had to wait until 11:00 AM before they were done striking their tokens, with opening time at 10:00 AM. I arrived at 2:30 PM, and I finally got to the door of the Mint at around 5:10 PM, only to have them refuse entry. Below is a link to a youtube video that I took while there, and it shows the large crowd around the doors of the mint and how they are reacting to the Mint employees' refusal of entry despite it not being closing time yet.
I went to the Vancouver location at 9:45 and saw the length of the lineup. I decided that stamping my own token and exchanging for the new loon was not a good use of my time.
Pretty pathetic. I honestly wouldn't wait in line for 30 minutes for one of these tokens but the people who got in a line that was that long knew what they were getting into. And then to try to get into the store 30 minutes before closing when the store was already full? Be disappointed and walk away. Show up earlier next time. Not sure what they thought moaning at the Mint employee wad going to get them.
Anyway, if this is the token, it's not much to look at. If certainly doesn't compare to the one struck in the video posted in the first post of this thread and was worth about what people who did get them paid for them.
Nope - the hammer die bounces after the initial strike... almost all of them look like that.
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Thanks AgCoinAu. Yes it was nice of them. I was chatting with a senior fellow, who was a casual NCLT collector. From the front of the counter, the topic of the conversation turn to the Canada 150 day and how busy it was. We both missed out that day. The lady working on the other side of the counter heard us talking, she offered a couple of Canada 150 tokens for both of us. There was a small pile left over. We both gladly accepted.
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I am not going to ask which one? 
Posted 07/01/2017 11:49 pm
