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Pillar of the Community
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The problem is that real Olympic coins for what ever reasons has no collectors following after the event, the 76 sets are sold at bullion value all the time. It's kind of cool but doubt there would be much interest, maybe more value in donating to BOC museum or Canada's Olympic Association.
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The collectability of the standard issue notwithstanding, all patterns for Canadian decimal coins are important. I agree that the best place is the National Currency Collection in the Bank of Canada. I urge you to contact them re: purchase or donation.
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I understand completely what you both are saying and I would tend to agree that it would be nice if these could be enjoyed by more than one person, however with that said I am not the owner of these coins, nor did I consign them to be put in this auction I mentioned.
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I would hope that the auction, being in Ottawa, would attract the attention of the Bank of Canada Currency Museum - because that is where those belong, in my opinion.
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70's was such a weird time for design.
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I'm going to post a link since SPP has seen this thread and didn't say I shouldn't, however again please accept my humblest apologies if this is against the rules and please remove link. I don't want to do anything that would cause my account to be locked. lots 41-51 my personal favorite is the last coin in my original post, looks like a bunch of floating bananas  . https://walkersauctions.hibid.com/c...tion/?ipp=10a few more images of different patterns as well  It's interesting how they made up some copies in what looks like copper as well.  and the extra strand of hair over the forehead of the bottom two coins.  Edited by checkup
12/05/2019 6:14 pm
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my personal favorite is the last coin in my original post, looks like a bunch of floating bananas First thing I thought of was perhaps a harbour in NFLD, full of dory boats... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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The bronze one would be nice to own that's interesting!
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Canada
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Most of the bids are around the $200 mark typically for 4 patterns. Does anyone know what the approximate worth is of these patterns? I think the auction site suggests they could go for 400 to $1000 dollars, but that's more of a number that THEY would like to see.
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So any estimates as to what these might be worth?
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What people are willing to pay for them... this auction had low reserves.
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Well I guessed wrong on these units value, about 1500 a piece with juice and taxes included for an unpopular set of Olympic coins. There is a chance there are more of these out there, but good luck to buyer seems like one person purchased the lot. The great thing with auctions, there is your market value answer for today anyway
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Posted 12/03/2019 5:18 pm
