New Canadian Navy $1 Circulation Coin

Well I looked for it, even, since I caught wind that the metal composition of the loonies and toonies will change in the year 2011, along with the change from paper to polymer. I only just got them yesterday but I hope they don't lose their lustre as fast as the 2010 Inukshuk loonie. So anyways, it seems that the mint has abandoned the mintmark, yet the metal composition is due to change. It's leading me to believe that maybe they've already started the nickel-plating.

I am predicting that this new Navy Coin will be a very sought after coin and hoarded by the masses! I have ten coming my way,and am going to be putting them in a safe place.

There will probably be a slight difference in weight too.

Pardon me, the Caribou not Elk. As a kid growing up on Lake Ontario, there were always Canadian coins in stores. We'd collect them and call them "Beavs", "Sails", "Elks", and "Leaves". Rarely saw a 50 cent or dollar coin. How quickly we regress to earlier ideas.

The Soo did get the Loon I was in the RBC and asked and received a roll and 5 loose ones plus I have 25 coming from the Mint. Now what to do with them

I got mine in the mail. Not what I was expecting. I guess you get what you pay for.

I received mine last night. They aren't in rolls, they're enclosed in a plastic strip with 5 individual airtight pockets. Maybe it's the plastic, I haven't really looked at them that closely yet, but it seems they have nowhere near the luster of the dollars I've found in circulation.