Old RCM / Royal Canadian Mint Minting Dies

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Vancouver IslandCoinKid Forum Kid Canada 1074 Posts	Posted 01/25/2015 6:42 pm I am wondering, what happens to the Dies that are used by both the Winnipeg and Ottawa locations. Have people ever gotten there hands on them? What are values? What does the mint do with them broken or not. I know I have seen some U.S die equipment before. Edited by Vancouver IslandCoinKid 01/25/2015 6:43 pm Report this Post to the Staff

thedollarman Pillar of the Community Canada 4911 Posts	Posted 01/25/2015 6:54 pm probably demolished, the only reason we have the loonie is because the mint lost a nickel dollar die. Feel free to call me Will. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10458 Posts	Posted 01/25/2015 7:05 pm The Bank of Canada Currency Museum has a few examples of dies in their collections, but I imagine most of them are destroyed. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
purelywasted Pillar of the Community Canada 1505 Posts	Posted 01/25/2015 7:11 pm I took the tour at the Ottawa mint, she answered the question, but I have forgotten the answer. I want to say they keep 1 set, but I can't remember 100%. Report this Post to the Staff
Altaira Pillar of the Community Canada 2519 Posts	Posted 01/25/2015 7:16 pm Pretty sure they would be defaced, if they were being released to the pulic intact then everyone will be making their own "money". That wouldn't be very good for the economy, the RCM, and collectors (not necessarily in that order). The closest thing to actual intact dies I've ever seen privately owned are actual dies, but whatever is on the face has been ground down to stump. Report this Post to the Staff
thedollarman Pillar of the Community Canada 4911 Posts	Posted 01/25/2015 7:25 pm I recall an article about a 1956 silver dollar die, they didn't destroy it but they took a punch of some sort to it a few times. Feel free to call me Will. Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21786 Posts	Posted 01/25/2015 7:59 pm All dies at the end of their working life are destroyed for obvious reasons. Neverhteless, I can see no reason why mints around the World should not be able to market deliberately defaced worn out dies to the collector. Report this Post to the Staff
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