Hello!
I haven't been around much lately - I find my interests and web page presence ebs and flows so to speak.
I was wondering if anyone might be able to give me insight into mintages of later Canadian (circulation) coins.
This was spurred on because earlier today I reviewed an email I received from 'Coins and Canada';
In the April email, there was a link for what I thought was updated mintages of coins...
Now, I need to take pause for a moment to give any one reading this a little context;
I typically only buy "new" charlton guides every ten years or so - sometimes less, but often closer to ten years apart - mostly because the year to year differences are minute enough that my $30 are better off spent else where - so what I do is add writing on the last page of a given denomination, and write in variants/mintages ect.
Now, the link provided by the email seemed to me to be a hot mess in several regaurds - and then there were the glaring blanks in mintage numbers.
This essentially brought me back here today, and I ended up (after browsing a little) to the mintage listed here.
I would think that a non-circulation coin would not be listed in the mintage (because such listings would also suggest that there should be lines for proof ect coins);
Unless I am mistaken, for 2017 the only circulation coins were the "150th" issues, so a listing of the 2017 polar bear toonie, is slightly confusing - especially since the total mintage seems to be listed behind the polar bear toonie and there is no break down by coin type, or coloured vs uncoloured.
Now, I understand that the
RCM does annual reports in which it lists mintage of the year prior - and on occasion there are press releases of the intended mintage of special issue coins.
Am I mistaken on this?
I would really like to know the proper numbers of later coins, and a break down for special, and "painted" vs unpainted coins.
Does such information exist on line?
I was quite intrigued to learn of the 2019 toonie serration variant - something I wasn't aware of prior to today.