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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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That is cool, thanks for sharing. What sort of metal is it struck on?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Valued Member
 Canada
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Anyone strikes the snake medallion at the Ottawa Boutique today?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I did it yesterday... Do they have one in Winnipeg?
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Valued Member
Canada
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I did it yesterday... Do they have one in Winnipeg? No Winnipeg. Only Vancouver and Ottawa this year. By the way, it is the last day to strike your snake medallion today at the Ottawa Boutique. |
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United States
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My wife and I visited the mint, on tour in Ottawa, fondled the $750,000 28 pounds (guard said pounds) of Gold and had a medallion struck yesterday....our medallions had weak strikes thus the dies must have been showing some wear.
Yours is quite distinct all around the snake...ours had a very light strike on the tail of the snake. Still in all a nice surprise that we weren't expecting. One gent purchased over 8K of merchandise and got a free T shirt and a free 2013 Oh Canada set.
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New Member
Canada
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Got mine today but didn't get there early enough for the free gift..   |
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We went today, and after some smooth talking and charm with the operator, and her getting approval from a supervisor - we got our way with the press.  First pic, we got a blank planchet, for my friend's planchet collection.  Next, an off-centre strike (which seems to be the normal anyway).  Then, we reloaded a previously struck token. So, we now have a flip-strike, double struck token. Have fun figuring out which design was struck first.  This last one, was the most fun - we should have double struck more... "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 OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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just think of the coins we can create if we worked at winnipeg for one day.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Well, I was hoping there's a Winnipeg one. I've traded one of my Ottawa with another user in another forum for theirs Vancouver one.
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Valued Member
Canada
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I thought there might be some in Winnipeg as well, but it makes sense that there isn't. It's a marketing strategy to cater towards chinese-canadians, I don't think there are that many in Winnipeg. Would make sense to have some in Toronto though. I've got my Ottawa tokens, I'm interested in trading for a Vancouver one as well. Anyone knows if there were such tokens in Ottawa last year (dragon)?
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Posted 02/16/2013 2:35 pm
