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One ounce Pure gold coin "Canada's 150th Anniversary Early Circulation Design" Mintage: 250 $2,699.95 125th Anniversary of the Invention of Basketball "First ever convex-shaped coin" (unusual curvature) Rust basketball backing with two players leaping with ball in hand Mintage: 8,500 $159.95 CELEBRATING CANADA'S 150th 1/2 ounce pure silver 13-coin monthly subscription (shows coloured pics) Wooden Box comes with first coin Too many to list that appear with some to be revealed "soon" Mintage: 25,000 $44.95 each One ounce Pure silver DC Comics Originals 1. The Man of steel (July) 2. The Amazing Amazon (August) 3. The Dark Knight (Sept) Packaging: each with own graphics plus a glow in the dark Batman case to place all three coins in. Mintage: 10,000 $109.95 each Previous Subscriptions: Last coin in Geometry in Art Coin (Mtge 7,500 $99.95) 3rd coin Illusion Series (Salmon) Mtge 5,500 $99.95 3rd and final coin Ultra-high relief Grotesque series Mtge, 4,000 149.95 Star Trek 1/2 Scotty $54.95 mtge: 12,500 3rd coin Majestic Animal Series Baronial Bald Eagle mtge 6,500 $99.95 August Birthstone mtge: 3,000 49.95 Oh Boy....cannot wait to hear the comments on this one. LOL Edited by New1954
06/20/2016 08:29 am
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Thanks, New1954!
Glow in the dark Batman case for 3 DC Comics coins? Yup, should get a few comments on that one...LOL
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Thanks for the advance notice New1954. In the predicatable RCM fashion, I suspect collectors of atypical shaped NCLT might soon notice the past few were only the very beginning. The Celebrating Canada's 150th - 13 coin set sounds interesting but I'm going to sit that one out. While they're great fun to collect at the time to commemorate the event - especially for collectors with young children who might keep it as a keepsake. Using myself as an example, my millennium set sits in a storage box somewhere, about as interesting to me as yesterday's news. However the 1967 sets my dad bought when I was just a child, very memorable and treasured, in fact probably a significant reason that I got hooked into a lifelong interest in collecting.... |
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The email I received indicates that the gold coin (250 mintage) is already on a 'waiting list'.
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@wildflowerAB I ordered a subscription because it depicts various scenes throughout Canada. You get the wooden box with the first coin and "Canada" is written very differently on the coins celebrating (1867-2017) All the coins are in full colour process except where CANADA and the years are etched. Really really nice. Coin 1:Common Loon (ONTARIO) July 2016 Coin 2: Kayaking on the River (QUEBEC) August 2016 Coin 3: Lighthouse on Pegg's Cove (NOVA SCOTIA) September 2016 Coin 4: Great Blue Heron (NEW BRUNSWICK) October 2016 (COIN TO BE REVEALED) Coin 5: Canola Field (MANITOBA) November 2016 Coin 6: Float Planes on the Mackenzie River (NORTHWEST TERRITORIES) December 2016 Coin 7: Grizzly Bear (BRITISH COLUMBIA) January 2017 Coin 8: Panmure Island (PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND) February 2017 Coin 9: Aurora Borealis at McIntyre Creek (YUKON) March 2016 Coin 10: Wild Swift Fox and Pups (SASKATCHEWAN) April 2017 Coin 11: Pey To Lake (ALBERTA) May 2017 Coin 12: Iceberg at Dawn (NEWFOUNDLAND and LABRADOR) June 2017 (COIN TO BE REVEALED) Coin 13: Drum Dancing (NUNAVUT) July 2017 (COIN TO BE REVEALED) Mintage 25,000 $44.95 each pure silver I could not resist the cross-country journey that celebrates the distinct and timeless wonders of the land we proudly call home. (Words by RCM) Edited by New1954
06/20/2016 12:26 pm
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Thanks a lot for the info, New1954! It is always great to see the new RCM NCLT spin.. "CELEBRATING CANADA'S 150th" - what this about? I mean, what are the designes (just briefly, please) @Wildflower: What is the "Millenium" set? And what type of 1967 set your father brought? |
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The basketball coin is called the first convex shaped coin? I thought the RCM already put out a similar type coin this year - the Parliament Library coin. |
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Quote:The basketball coin is called the first convex shaped coin? I thought the RCM already put out a similar type coin this year - the Parliament Library coin.  Probably the "convex" of the Basketball is different from the Parliament Library. (similar as transparent blue enamel with relief under it for Polar Bear different from the Great Lakes). |
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but didn't they also do a convex/concave 'baseball' coin a couple years ago? (or was that American?)
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06/20/2016 2:01 pm
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They were US Mint coins, Decadon. (Dollar - BU and Proof, Half Dollar, and Gold coin ) Well done, but over-hyped at the beginning, specially graded ones. RCM minted Baseball coins also (2013?), but these could be described by weak design and probably very low final mintage (low demand), and this fact as well doesn't bother much collectors. Added:The most famous - for the collectors - concave coin has been minted in 2012 by RAM - "Southern Crux". Innovative that time, caused debates and different opinions. It had average demand, till the coin won COTY Award, since then prices skyrocketed, and now CAD 600 will be bargain price for it. Actually no much supply in the market. Edited by Silveroid
06/20/2016 2:23 pm
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New1954 thanks for the information. Always look forward to hearing about new releases. Those that used to keep us up to date are no longer. So glad that you are! Thanks.
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What is the "Millenium" set?
And what type of 1967 set your father brought?
Preceeding Y2K was a whole lot of hype and tripe, aside from anything operated by computers would shut down, massive power outages would occur (nothing of the sort happened of course), it was special much like an anniversary but of a Calendar year. The Millenium set was silver 25c. http://www.colonialacres.com/produc...rike-throughThe 1967 sets, aside from the Uncirculated Sets, he also bought 2 of the gold coin sets, one for me and one for him although he kept both safely stored as I was not yet a teenager. Now I have both of them. The intrigue of the design of the 1967 series was a really big thing at the time as each animal/bird was chosen by Alex Colville to symbolize something beyond the mere image: http://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/20...e-1920-2013/Edited by wildflowerAB
06/20/2016 2:56 pm
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Preceeding Y2K was a whole lot of hype and tripe, aside from anything operated by computers would shut down, massive power outages would occur (nothing of the sort happened of course), it was special much like an anniversary but of a Calendar year. The Millenium set was silver 25c. yeah, I remember... While some people withrown cash in advance from ATM, the others at 00:00:00 tried to withdraw, in order to get huge cash amounts due to fatal mistake. Thanks for URL, didn't know that silver version of these exists. Noticed: Mintage: 435,752,000 - and CA sold-out The 1967 sets, you mentioned - definitively keepers. |
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There were two Millennium proof silver 25 cent sets - one for 1999 and another for 2000. Each was $149.95 at issue. Notice, they generally sell for 50-60% of that 16 plus years later.
1999 set mintage 60,245
2000 set mintage 37,940
There were also circulation sets that sold for about $24 and can often be had for less than $10 now.
There were also 1992 Canada125 set of proof and circ coins which also sell below issue price now.
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There were also circulation sets that sold for about $24 and can often be had for less than $10 now. yes, the circulation versions in variety of cardboards (as set) are well known. The 1992 issue is much more interesting - the coins are "very Canadian" imo |
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I see the Library of Parliament coin was noted to be the first Concave coin in the RCM description. It may be due to the Reverse design being on the concave side. Is the Basketball coin reverse on the Convex side, that would still be a first, albeit pushing it. I remember the Baseball concave coin from the US Mint being a big seller, with Naismith - a Canadian, the inventor of Basketball, and the number of fans/participants out there, this may be a hot coin. |
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