2022 Circulation Coins

I wouldn't mind if they went a year without any circulating commems. It gives me too much stress trying to find them, then I usually buy them off of ebay or someone else for a premium.

Respectfully, I disagree. As someone who cannot afford all of the special non-circulating commems that come out each year (at the cheapest you're putting out a couple dozen dollars for one coin, and most are well into the hundreds), I like the fact that the RCM releases circulating commems each year for a couple reasons:

1) it highlights special events and history for the general public (most of whom don't know about NCLT coins, and the only special coins they will ever come across are those they find in their change. It's a chance for Canada to highlight its history, culture, geography and so much more.

2) as someone who can't afford the dozens (if not hundreds) of dollars to collect any of the NCLT, it is nice to still be able to collect something special. I enjoy looking at my collection of circulation coins and seeing things other than caribou, loons and polar bears year after year after year.

3) at best, it is a treasure hunt to find those commems for each year. At worst - to avoid the stress - the cost to buy them on the second-hand market is pretty reasonable (e.g., you can get all of the 2021 commemorative coins from my local coin dealer for less than $25+tax).

Personally, I would love to see more commemorative coins each year - or even series like the US does (their Native American series, or the American Innovations series) that has one (or a few) coins come out each year for each series.

The RCM is showing a collection of six commemorative circulation coins for this year.

We now know the first two are the $1 Loonie Oscar Peterson, colour and non-colour.

Four more to go for the year.

My guesses are:

The 150th anniversary of the birth of John McCrae - "In Flanders Fields" poem

The 50th anniversary of the 1972 Canada-Soviet Hockey Series (Summit Series)