Women's Right To Vote Loonie In 2016

cadre, great find, I wonder when these will be released. I wonder in what month the voting occurred. This is a great way to collect and learn about Canadian history. I must say my knowledge of Canadian history has greatly expended since I started collecting.

A great first post! What areas do you collect. You will find a great group of collectors here and a deep well of knowledge too.

Thanks for letting us know and

I'll be looking forward to this release as well. Thanks cadre.

cadre


After the announcement in the gazette, the RCM usually issues the coins 4 to 8 weeks later.


I am curious whether the RCM will also issue a ''Lucky Loonie'' because of the Olympic Games in Rio. If they do, hopefully, not the same design as 2012/2014.

Last year I noticed the announcement of the "In Flanders Field" 25c and $2.00 in the Cdn Gazette was made on July 1st. The actual 100th anniversary date of the poem was May, 2015. The coins barely made it into circulation by the end of the year.

By that record, hopefully we'll see the loonies by mid summer 2016.

How I think it works "behind the scenes"......

The Mint produces X amount of commemorative quarters for the Bank of Canada, for whatever occasion.
The Bank of Canada fills coin orders for banks.
(Banks operate under strict coin/currency limits, on the balance sheet too much excess cash is similar to too much excess unsold merchandise and banks aren't automatically sent more without ordering/buying from BofC)
In general the use of coin is becoming reduced, meanwhile the new mintages made for circulation sit longer in BofC's supply room awaiting order from banks.
Thus the Mint holds off producing more because of BofC is sitting on excess.
As coin is ordered by the banks, the new issues trickle into supply but it's unlikely that the entire mintage is distributed/ordered by banks' currency ops immediately, unless the present ARP (alloy recovery program) is taking huge amounts of coin out of circulation.
BofC relies on the fact that commemorative issues are often saved, thus they are removed from circulation, requiring banks to order more to sustain adequate circulation supply. Considering banks and coin savers pay face value and the cost to the BofC/RCM is far less to mint coins, the govt makes money by additional commemorative issues being taken out of circulation by collectors. At face value, it's also a win for collectors. But also possible the reason why we see more and more of commemoratives minted over recent years, as coin usage decreases in general........
The cycle continues.

The mint has Canada divided into about 5 district and say the Toronto area the TD has enough loonies or in this case quarters being rolled and recirculated there is no need for such denomination until there is a shortage and a call to Winnipeg to order 25 cents, they have like a 20 acre building full of Canadian coins sometimes a few years old. The banks are charged a delivery cost which they wish to avoid and that's why most banks just have old coins. if anyone get's a chance to visit the Winnipeg mint it's a great tour.

I'd love to visit the Wnnipeg mint which is a must do on a cross Canada trip, but it won't be happening this year.

(Maybe somebody should check for 2003 crowned/old effigy loonies? )

Yes that's true, banks pay shipping costs and in addition have absolutely no reason to buy more coin if they have adequate supply on hand, other than through a ARP. A 25c is worth 25c regardless. On that note, I'm finally noticing 2015 longest rein $20s coming into circulation in my Alberta area, some crisp serial # sequence from a ATM last week.