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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3692 Posts |
One of my UNfavourites in circulation are the 2000 series quarters. The ones that say community, pride, etc. Good concept, but hard to depict on coins. The designs didn't look that great.
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Valued Member
Canada
426 Posts |
I hate the coin in my display pic.
Also, laconic's post of the Queen Mother coin is terrible.
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New Member
Canada
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Queen Victoria is a dog on any coin, I don't like the '67 dimes mackerel, they could have used something nicer like a salmon or trout or a Newfie clubbin a seal, now that would make a nice dime! And last but not least any coin made after 1999 that is made from plated steel. We no longer have coins we have cheap chunks of plated toyotas for our currency. We have been duped!  Leaf PS how many hundreds of posts do I need in order to create a signature? |
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Canada
650 Posts |
I, find a lot of the commemoratives are butt ugly.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2408 Posts |
RCM colorized coins... 
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
632 Posts |
all coins from late 2003 on - I don't know why they replaced the queen with Nixon
a special mention goes to the queen mom coin - the ugliest portrait ever
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2408 Posts |
T_y, Nixon for the queen is close, with a bit more hair that would be a perfect match. This took a while but I think the ugliest would have to be the milk coin:  Also close in the race is the 50 Cents Soccer coin. The font is weird and the players are in confusing positions.  Finally, the snowman... just didn't work for my kids. The dinos did far better.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I don't understand how they can put a denomination on that old cow guitar pick :p
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Valued Member
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Why is the cow green? Is she sick or just toxic?
I also don't get the guitar pick and cow/milk association.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2408 Posts |
Realpenny, The coin has some kind of green translucent enamel effect on the reverse. The guitar pick... was an on-going joke when this coin was released. It looks like a guitar pick, such as this one:  The funniest thing is the RCM released in 2009 - guess what - a guitar pick!  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Why do you drag us through the mud so? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2408 Posts |
Ugly,
In 1000 years, among the ruins post nuclear age they'll dig all those replicas and fakes... and perhaps among the relics they'll find the guitar pick.
At least they'll know for sure it is genuine.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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This is pretty ugly and I own one, not sure , I get the 10 leafs but not sure what it has to do with the bear, is he chucking these up, let me know if there is some redeeming feature to this ..   |
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Canada
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Sorry I should have ACTUALLY counted the leafs , actually 13 for the territories, I guess. This is 1 of the Canada Day series, I think the marketing idea was to appeal to kids,as they all have youth flavor.Not sure how this worked out for them,but I know when I was a kid getting this set, say, for a birthday, would be as exciting as getting socks. Ya sure, money to a 10 year old equals candy and now he has money he can't spend.
Would this not just frustrate a kid? Coin collecting sucks........Let a kid find a large cent or a 50 cent piece and the spark ignites itself.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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13 leaves? That's scary - just like the 13 original colonies of Britain. I have to agree, Ugly, that guitar pick has no place in coinage. If I ever tried to spend that I'd get arrested for uttering. That's why commemoratives, to me, are not reallllly coins, because they can't be spent with any amount of ease. You get a weird look, a few smudges, and a request for "real" money. SIGH. And this milk token kind of proves my point (does it?) that it's symbolic of the past. Nobody uses milk tokens anymore, right? There are actual milk token you CAN collect that were legitimately used for this in Canada. I remember in Mexico, my grandmother had a milk ration card - kind of the same deal like food stamps. Anyways, these new coins are ugly physically and mentally to me. Another SIGH.
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06/22/2010 08:24 am
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