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Valued Member
Canada
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The mint has just released a 50 cent triangle coin to commemorate dairy tokens; it is listed on their site. What are your thoughts on this coin? I think it is a strange idea for a coin, though it is quite unique... Is the mint getting tired of circular coinage? First the $3 square beaver, and now this? I think they are dropping hints of things to come, lol... Though I don't think this coin will generate as much interest as the $3 square beaver. Edited by gawd0wns
05/03/2008 12:30 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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I doubt they'll make circulating "odd shaped" coins anytime soon but if this one does fairly well, expect a few more like it. Imgaine the first trapazoid coin? hah
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Yes I know and like I say before it would make a nice pick to play my guitar  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Here's the "coin" in question:  I'm not sure I actually consider this a "coin", but each collector to his own.  Personally, I think the RCM has gone a bit far with this one--I can only imagine the expense of tooling a special die/collar for just one issue of unproven collector interest  On another note, what is this one exactly about? Cows, milk, or the shape of one type of milk token? One Canadian here thought it resembled a guitar pick (again!) Edited by KurtS
05/03/2008 1:27 pm
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Valued Member
Canada
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Couldnt they make one that was brownish, so there could be some chocolate milk?
On a serious side when I saw this coin I was pretty disinterested.
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New Member
Canada
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Speaking of guitar picks, there is a guy in the states that will actually take your silver quarters and turn them into picks. I have seen a few of the 1967 Cougar quarters that he has done and they look really neat. I don't recall the name of the guy that makes them but I could dig it up if someone was interested.
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 Australia
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The RCM is selling those things for $50?  That's a lot of milk. As for the shape itself, that's not all that unusual, from a world-wide perspective. Bermuda, for instance, has been issuing "Bermuda Triangles" for a decade or so now. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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United States
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Bermuda, for instance, has been issuing "Bermuda Triangles" for a decade or so now.
I keep buying those coins...and they keep on getting lost. Edited by KurtS
05/04/2008 9:34 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Edited by andre1621
05/04/2008 10:35 pm
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 United States
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Silly Canadians You are supposed to Cut On the Dotted Line. Never had to flunk a country out of art class before.  |
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Canada
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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"I was wondering are they going to start making 2 x 2 in triangle now" And good luck putting these coins in a roll! |
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Canada
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New Member
Canada
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Wait wait, what about a set of colourized coins in the shape of a pig, dog, cow, or chicken. Maybe, the colourized egg coin can be inserted into the colourized chicken coin. We cant forget the shotgun with a movable slide either...
Edited by coincoin
05/18/2008 9:50 pm
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United States
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What I did learn is that the reverse design which is covered in green translucent enamel-effect gooey substance is apparently inspired by an actual milk delivery token shape that once circulated in Canada.  Marc Edited by canadian_coins
05/29/2008 10:41 pm
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