1967 $20 Gold Coin - How Many Left?

I have no idea how many gold coins are left but I agree, they are very attractive in design.

I though I'd offer some additional points of interest.

In 1967 the anticipation of Canada's Cenntenial was huge. I was just a young child but I still remember there were exciting events happening everywhere, celebrations, parades, all the new circulation coin released.....it was very memorable!

1967 was also the last year of silver coins and this was known by the public in advance.

According to my 2015 Charlton:
Uncirculated Sets - 963,714 @ $4 each, present value $40 (consider that 60,000 sets were minted in 2016)
The 100th Anniversay of Comfederation Sets:
Silver Medallion version - 72,463 sold @ $12 each, p/v $70
$20 Gold Coin version - 337,687 sold @ $40 each, p/v $875

Oh gosh then I was I a wayyyyyy older child at the age of 11!

Yes, if one had only known.....

Do you have memories of 1967? I recall my parents sent me all by myself on a bus to go to my cousins in Calgary, to watch the Cenntenial parade. The bus was over capacity so the bus company hired taxi cabs to take additional people with tickets. I thought myself very worldly to have a cab ride all the way to Calgary because it the first one I ever rode in.

Most of them maybe 75%, still leaves a lot.

Perhaps my memories were elevated because my father was also an avid coin collector at the time. For the next few years I recall handing over every single silver coin I ever found, the find was fun. That's one of the reasons I now attempt to share my coin passion with my grandson. When my children were growing up other things were priorities but I now strongly believe it helps for coin collectors of tomorrow to recall the thrill of the find as a child.

John you could be right, possibly the majority of $20 coins remain. If they do, my guess would be it's because they're being held as family mementos of the Cenntenail. What's your reasoning in your estimate of 75%?

Yes, gold was nothing remarkable back then and RCM was not profit driven. I always got the impression their role was more toward sharing national patriotism through NCLT.

Just a few years later, RCM sold Canada $100 gold coins in the '70s as well. This was the purchase price:
1976 (Montreal Olympics) 14kt $105 or 22kt $150
1977 $140 (.5 tr oz each year)
1978 $150
1979 $185
1980 $430
1981 $300....

Hmmmm - I don't know - 75% sounds high. One the one hand I'd like to think that families that were lucky or smart enough to buy these at the time would hang on to them and understand the value these coins hold, on the other hand I have heard numerous stories of how the kids or grandkids who inherit these coins do not have that sense of value and have no problem cashing out for a quick buck.

You have a coin that even today is only worth bullion value for what ever reasons, the price jump in gold since 1967 unfortunately ended most this coin in the melting pot. The few times I have seen a dealer buy the gold coin was for bullion value only, and off to the melting pot.

Gold has had two large run ups in the last 20 years and especially the last one going up to 1800.00 most of these common date gold coins were sold to dealers to end up being melted.