Royal Canadian Mint- Your coin design pays tribute to the enduring popularity of Trivial Pursuit game, its Canadian origins, and its 35-year history as one of the top-selling board games in the world. The piedfort offers nearly double the thickness of traditional coins, allowing for high-relief engraving to capture the look and feel of a player's rounded game piece, as viewed from above. The raised elements mimic the appearance of the six individual wedges that complete this game-winning piece, while the application of coloured enamel recreates the iconic colours of each question category: History (yellow), Geography (blue), Entertainment (pink), Arts & Literature (purple), Science & Nature (green), and Sports & Leisure (orange). The reverse also features the iconic "TRIVIAL PURSUIT" game logo engraved between the commemorative dates "1982" and "2017", along with the word "CANADA" and the face value "25 DOLLARS". The obverse features the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt.
interesting... I never realized this board game was invented in Quebec.
From Wikipedia:
Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions. The game was created in December 1979 in Montreal, Quebec, by Canadian Chris Haney, a photo editor for Montreal's The Gazette, and Scott Abbott, a sports editor for The Canadian Press. After finding pieces of their Scrabble game missing, they decided to create their own game.[1] With the help of John Haney and Ed Werner, they completed development of the game, which was released in 1982.[2]
No doubt RCM has done very well in marketing NCLT to commemorate various anniversaries related to the Hollywood Entertainment industry (Superman, Star Trek, Disney, etc). The only exception to the All-American entertainment theme that I can think of is the odd NCLT commemorating Canadian Sports teams.
So I'll guess a NCLT to commemorative the 35th anniversary of Trivial Pursuit is "for the record" intended to reflect acknowledgement and pride of a Canadian entertainment accomplishment....for lack of a whole lot of other options.
One trivia, why celebrate 35th anniversary?! Ridiculous. 10, 25, 50,100 years I can understand, but 35 years? Can't wait for the 45th anniversary Trivial Pursuit coin in 2026.
It's a shame that the RCM (and other mints around the world) no longer restricts itself to traditional anniversary milestones due to short-term revenue/profit motives. Why wait for a traditional anniversary when a coin can be sold now!
A few previous questionable anniversaries that come to mind:
- 2016: 140th anniversary of the Library of Parliament - 2002: 90th anniversary of Canada's first issue of $5.00 and $10.00 gold coins - 1998: 90th anniversary of the opening of the Ottawa Branch of The Royal Mint (forerunner of RCM)
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2005 - 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Flag SD 2005 - 60th Anniversary of the End of WWII SML (two of them) 2013 - 60th Anniversary of the Korean Armistice 2009 - 80th Anniversary of Canada in Japan $5 coin 2014 - 70th Anniversary of D-Day $10
Granted, many of those are note worthy events but non-tradition anniversary milestones.
I said it before but will repeat it here. The Trivial Pursuit coin is bizarre, both in design and subject; nice box though.
Just to add. Commems was close on my favourite anniversary to be 'celebrated' by the Mint.
It has to be the newest MC coin which at least in part, commemorates the 40th anniversary of the 1976 coin commemorating the 100th anniversary of the building of the Library of Parliament.
The 40th anniversary of a coin? That is a stretch.
I not sure, did we have V-Day on 2015? Which has to be "more celebratable" rather than D-day.
Quote: - 1998: 90th anniversary of the opening of the Ottawa Branch of The Royal Mint (forerunner of RCM)
From this at least 2 very nice and affordable sets came out. While 100-Anniversary gave a birth only to the "Coin and stamp set". Imo, it should be in opposite.
Quote: The 40th anniversary of a coin? That is a stretch.
I've never been a fan of coins commemorating other coins. Why not just buy the original if you like the design? From what I've seen with the RCM NCLT issues so far, examples of the original coin can generally be found for less than the cost of the NCLT reproduction. (The 2011 SD commemorating the centennial of the 1911 pattern SD is a serious exception to my pricing statement.)
I have added a few such anniversary coins to my 36mm SD collection because the RCM has included such coins in the series, but I've passed otherwise - including all of the RCM's over-sized coins of the past couple of years.
Don't get me wrong, the big coins are attractive, but that's largely because the original coins were attractive. For me, that's enough of a reason to stick with the originals for my collection.
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Quote: I've never been a fan of coins commemorating other coins. Why not just buy the original
I've been doing both: the coins I purchased that commemorate other coins, I've also gone on ebay and purchased the originals; most are available at very good prices.
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Posted 10/22/2016 5:46 pm
That is a stretch. 
