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I have two of the milk token coins. They're kind of interesting but the display is odd. The 'capsule' is round and seems too big to me. That said, I do like them and they are available for less than issue price. There is also a 2009 guitar pick 'coin' though it is cupronickel specimen finish as opposed to the milk token which is proof sterling silver. The guitar pick is generally harder to find. http://www.mint.ca/store/coin/50cen....UqUUKu2EiM8Edited by CC-Ottawa
12/08/2013 7:57 pm
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Canada
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@CC-Ottawa
80% of Mint issues are now available for issue or less unless the metal value has increased a lot. That said this issue is very interesting.
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This one more so. I bought one for 19.99 (issue was 49.95).
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Canada
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i love this coin. I just find it so odd. I also have the six nation guitar tribute 'pick'
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Canada
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Any milk spots on them yet?
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I have this coin. Really enjoy the shape and design. I have a few other triangle shaped coins. Adds some nice variety to the round, scalloped, and square shapes in the collection.
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I'm in the States and I bought one a year or so after they had come out. How can you beat a triangular, blue laminated (wrong term?), cow embellished coin? Let's face it... if I would go up to someone and ask if they want to see a blue coated, triangular coin with a cow on one side, they'd think I was pulling their leg  I guess there were just so many interesting features to this design I had to have one. I also like it commemorates the unsung heroes of yesteryear who used to pull up front of the house in their signature milk truck to fill the milk box sitting on the front porch. Actually, I live in an area where there is a diary named Trickling Springs. They still use their own glass bottles and they will make home deliveries to a milk box you get from them. Google says it is one of three dairies still doing so in the States. But for the cost... well... my wife is at the grocery store each week anyway. 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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I'm just old enough to remember milk deliveries - glass bottles with a paper tab that you pulled off. Then a piece of cloth or saran wrap with an elastic to 'close' it. And a milk man that everyone knew.
Maybe that's why some people appreciate this coin but it seems many don't.
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I actually really like the dark green enamel on it. I also just barely remember milk delivery when I was a kid back in the early 70's. There was a special little cupboard installed by the back door in the house I grew up in. And I spent a year in England back in the mid 90's and got milk delivery there. Also have the 6 String Nation Guitar one (cool backstory to this one http://www.sixstringnation.com/). The only 2 triangular coins produced by the RCM to date! |
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@kuh - thanks for posting that link. I grew up not far from the border so have always loved Canada as a second "home." This guitar is an amazing symbol.
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Sorry for the lack of detail but I really had to shrink the pix down to fit. The originals are over 3MBs each.   |
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Very interesting issue.
The coin has a triangular shape...so I young enough to remember in my very early childhood that we had milk packs in the pyramid shape (triangular in 2-D), that later were replaced to the glass bottles.
Interesting to know why the coin has a both - that shape and the bottle on it.
And the real milk delivery - not in the towns, but in the country, the milkman turned around with the tank of the milk (horse or truck) and people came out to him with their own canes to fill the milk into them. That time milk packs or bottles - were rarity.
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