2018 October RCM Releases Include Gimmick Coins

It is 10,000 mintage

Thanks for the information. I am surprised that they have 10K (60k tokens) available. That seems like a lot of lab used test pieces. Have to wonder about condition and how sets will vary.

At least one seems to be dated 2016 and another uses the Robert Bateman image of a moose for the 2012 $20 ag. Would be interesting to see that on a circulation coin.

"A glimpse of future possibilities. These are tried,tested and true examples of forward-thinking technology that could re-define future domestic or foreign coins."

Tried to put a link to the CA product page but you have to log in to your account to view.

Here's one on ebay;

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/6-SECURITY-...AOSwLvxbr3-c

Maybe. I have a few of the test token sets from prior years and while they had higher mintages, few if any sell now for even issue price. I got the 2012 set for 40% off from Canada Post. My bet would be the 2018 sets will lose value fairly quickly.

They are interesting though and that ebay seller is asking $30 for each token. That's a very hard ask IMO.

C/A have now sold 3 sets in three days.

Especially in today's NCLT market. The RCM has been reducing mintages for the past several years to no avail. Except for a few "hot" coins, most coins remain unsold.

Colonial Acres still have 46 sets left. They are hardly flying off the shelf.

The tokens will appeal to the hard core coin collector but it will be a big yawn to the general public. Ask anyone who is not into coin oollecting and they will have no clue what tokens are. "A token?" "you mean for the bus".




Hoarding for hopes of appreciation only works if demand outstrips supply and I doubt demand for the tokens is there as I explained above.

You are better off spending money hoarding these tokens on the stock market.

Thank you for explain, guys.

Thought about the Tokens cause them aren't usual RCM NCLT item..
And since, there are a lot of people worldwide, who follows RCM, they might find the set unique, and start to want it.

**actually I still under impression from the token set from the other thread.

If the RCM is just using dies of test tokens to make more tokens seriously devalues them. Like john100 said, these tokens are like the rest of the NCLT coins. Worse, they are not even silver, so there is no bullion value to them.

Since they are not the actual tokens used, use this analogy: Game-Worn sports jerseys are worth way more than replica jerseys.

Unless a test token was used for saleman's sample or tokens sent to vending machine companys to calibrate new sizes or weight and not returned, some of these are rare, but anything the RCM issue and sell as test token sets are what they are. There is like the cool looking 2016 caribou token, why would the RCM strike 10000 or more for testing what, obviously they are restriking these old design, the other thought is maybe a decent amount of these 4 tokens are in private hands and this is a way to make them common and make a few bucks.