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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Hey guys, What do you think about it? I'm not a fun of these things, as I don't event consider them coins, but I don't know why, I like it. It's a very simple design for the anniversary of Canada. Now, the price is $159.95 for 1.5 oz and a mintage of 10,000 .  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
6768 Posts |
One "Flag" coin is enough for the collection, and previous 3 dollars coin, imo, looks better.
This one has some uniqueness and simple clear design.
But what for (except make more money) needed to mint it with 10.000 mintage, priced almost like 2oz coin?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4963 Posts |
An interesting piece, although I wouldn't pay $160 CAD or USD for it. I've noticed that the RCM mints lots of creative and colorful commemoratives, unlike the U.S. Mint. I wouldn't say this is one of the nicer looking Canadian commemoratives, but interesting nonetheless. |
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United States
19 Posts |
I think all the previous flag coins look better than this. They kind of just slapped a flag on there.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
2360 Posts |
For some reason I like the design, too expensive to order, looks like a bullion bar/wafer.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1269 Posts |
I like it but I probably will not buy it right now. I will wait until next year and get one for half price.
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
 United States
12259 Posts |
As others do, I believe the RCM has already issued more interesting/attractive coins celebrating the 50th anniversary of Canada's flag. The piece also struck me as expensive. I've purchased the various versions of the silver dollar plus the $3 silver coin - I think those are enough "flag coins" for me! Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
644 Posts |
Nice coin but the mintage is too high.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
5324 Posts |
Just like most collectors are saying, coin a day and theme overload, a simple wafer is a poor design for a coin.
Edited by john100
06/03/2015 10:00 am
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3690 Posts |
I normally don't compare bullion and collector coins but this one reminds me too much of silver bars and not coins. Silvertowne sell an American flag that I find similar to this one. The difference is weight, the finish, the mintage and more than $120! That wafer is about $38CAD today. So why can't the RCM produce a similar bullion item with the same type of pricing?  Edited by CC-Ottawa
06/03/2015 10:12 am
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
693 Posts |
Once again, the packaging looks better than the coin (bullion bar?). It looks like the mint took on a summer-student engraver.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
6768 Posts |
Might be RCM has to pay for license, using the Canada flag on the coins? So that the reason of multiple designs and the price? On the other, the flag wasn't depicted as the "Flag pictogramm" unlike this one... Except this, looks like it was commissioned |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3690 Posts |
Just noticed that this one doesn't have the word "Canada" on it. Has there ever been a 'coin' issued without the country name?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
6768 Posts |
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Just noticed that this one doesn't have the word "Canada" on it. Has there ever been a 'coin' issued without the country name? Nice catch. But it impossible.....might be try to get the exact answer from you rep? I remember, recently, RM minted commemorative 50p coin without denomination. So I sent a query to the customer service. Their reply was something like: "Just like that. This is collectors and not circulation coin". |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2360 Posts |
The penny in this set had no place of origin. 1998 (1908-) Proof Set - Special Limited Edition - 90th Anniversary of the Royal Canadian Mint - Matte Issue Edited by SilverDon
06/03/2015 3:00 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
6768 Posts |
Right, SilverDon but this was RCM mistake / error. It treated differently, cause was part of the set and it replica coin. Here we have individual "no origin" edition. |
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