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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
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By my quick count, the RCM offered over 100 products -- either individual coins or coin sets -- that were dated "2011". Quite a large and impressive product catalogue! Among the various offerings, which was your favorite coin or set from last year? Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
 United States
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I'll kick things off with my favorite. I'm more of a "traditional" collector, so the RCM coins I purchase tend to be of the unadorned variety. As a silver dollar collector, I liked the Parks Canada silver dollar and thought it was nicely executed with a fresh, modern feel. I also liked the $10 Maple Leaf Forever coin, a classic, simple design on an affordable silver coin (vs. the kilogram coins). I also liked the $10 Highway of Heroes coin, mostly for the fundraising effort behind the coin but I thought the simple, real-life design was impactful. All that said, my favorite 2011 dated coin was the Special Edition silver dollar that marked the 100th anniversary of Canada's 1911 silver dollar pattern. I've always considered Sir E. B. MacKennal's portrait of King George V to be a timeless classic, and to see it on a flawless proof coin was terrific!   Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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Bedrock of the Community
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 I got a couple others - but this, to me, was the best. How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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Pillar of the Community
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I'll see your special edition dollar and raise you the Special Edition proof set. My favourite of 2011.
Just thinking about these; the $1 was issued with a mintage of 15,000 but there were 6,000 of them in the set. So what's the actual mintage of the $1? 15k or 21k? I assume 15k total.
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05/03/2012 11:22 pm
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That is definitely a nice one, but going off of what I actually have in my possession, I would go with this one. Not my picture though, so full credit to the mint where I'm pretty sure this came from.  Not as fancy as some others, and it's maybe a little small, but best 2011 I got anyway. |
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Pillar of the Community
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> I've always considered Sir E. B. MacKennal's portrait of King George V to be a timeless classic
I agree. It is the finest obverse ever to grace Canadian coinage, IMHO. I wish they could come up with its equal for ER.
The only problem I have with the commemorative dollar is it has "1 DOLLAR" instead of "ONE DOLLAR". Yes, it should have said 1 DOLLAR back then, but it didn't.
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
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Just thinking about these; the $1 was issued with a mintage of 15,000 but there were 6,000 of them in the set. So what's the actual mintage of the $1? 15k or 21k? I assume 15k total.
My understanding is that the two are considered separate products and therefore each has its own maximum mintage. So, I believe ~21K will turn out to be the final mintage for the dollar when the two options are combined. I don't believe individual coin and set products work like how the 2012 Group of Seven Individual vs. Subscription coins worked where between the two there was an overall limit of 7,000. Note: I'm basing this on how things are presented in RCM Annual Reports.Does anyone have knowledge of it being different than this? Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
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I was having a look at the just-released RCM 2011 Annual Report and they list the following for the 2011 Special Edition Silver Dollar: - Individual: 14,569 - Proof Set: 5,952 So, it does look like the total mintage will be just under 21,000 -- certainly not the rarest of the SE silver dollars. Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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Posted 05/03/2012 10:55 pm
