How Rare Are The Canadian Coloured 2017 25 Cent And 2 Dollar Coins.

I don't understand why. There are so many, it's hard to imagine they will be worth much more over face value, but I suppose there are people out there willing to spend a few bucks for them.

You could do the math: 3 Million GITD Toonies vs 40 Million new $10.

Its very hard to find them in the banks. Been to many Vancouver banks, could not find a single one that have the toonie rolls.

Apparently banks don't get the Canada 150 coins unless they place an order through the Mint. Most don't do that.

Not only that but dealers are sold out of the Toonies and other Canada 150 coins. They say they place orders for them but won't receive them until mid or late July.

You need connections at your bank to get large, quanities, especially the toonie most bank employees knows there is an after market for them, they might keep them for themselves and will be a windfall for armour money services. The RCM seems to always find a way to screw up things for it's main customers, the collectors. you promote the new toonie but make it almost impossible to attain at face. I am not sure how dealers can order from the mint anymore, there is no bulk order dept. anymore

When I asked at my home branch of the TD to order me a case of the new toonies and I will pay the shipping and handling fee from Winnipeg, they still can't or won't because they have no process in place, they only get these new coins randomly. At last weeks Torex show a couple dealers had quite a few toonie rolls for sale, must have connections in order to attain such amounts, maybe after July 1, we find out real mintage of these toonies if in the 30 million range eventually they will be easy to obtain

As explained to me by the nice lady who runs the bulk order dept. in Winnipeg, the country is divided into 4 or 5 districts, the TD for instance if the Toronto region is running low in toonies, dimes, they will place an order with Winnipeg and they will send out what ever is in stock but they are charged one time fee and shipping thus if the major banks can recycle they will it's cheaper, but I think there is a special directive from the Minister of Finance to get these special 150 circulating coins out to the public by July 1 if not why bother. It's one thing to drive around many large bank branches around Toronto and many has never seen any of the 150 rolls or a limited few who received a box and basically told it went to a couple customers. Those couple dealers at Torex couldn't have received their rolls by random chance, by the RCM stopping the bulk order dept. it made some smart bank and armour courier employees an easy windfall

@ John, yes that's the way it goes. But the role of banks, even main branches, is not like it was in the past where virtually every business dealt directly with a bank by depositing daily and ordering coin supplies. Big box chains have taken over the retail front and they're the major users of coin in today's world. But they're not supplied coin by local banks.

My recollection is Brinks is also able to order directly from RCM, when their reserves fall low. So just my opinion that Brinks (and possibly Loomis) is a far more likely distribution source to get 2017 circulation coin into the public by big box retail stores and fast food chains. The limited number of tellers who remain in even the larger of bank branches is an indication that their role in cash and coin transactions has significantly diminished over time.

Brinks ChangeFund Service:
http://www.brinks.ca/solutions/changefund.php#1

I still believe talking to Winnipeg that only the central coin centers of each major bank in that area can only place coin orders, take Walmart, who ever their bank of choice would be sending out coinage through their choice of armoured service. If Brinks can order it still shows the fault in the system of trying to get these 150 coins out to the general public without paying dealer pricing.