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Valued Member
Canada
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The Peanut's coin thread got me wondering what you think is the ugliest Canadian coin. Please post a picture. It has to be a coin with 'Canada' on it (not made for other countries by the mint) and can not be a medallion. I'll have to think about this one as I just came up with the thought.....
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Valued Member
 Canada
168 Posts |
OK, I put some thought into it and here are 4 that I dislike (but would like to own!): Picture is based on a painting but still ugly to me  No disrespect to the Queen Mother but its a bad likeness. Probably why the coin sold so few (thus making it rare)  The best they could come up with for the commonwealth games?  Since this is a 2010 release, I'm kinda scared to see 2011  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Yeah the Queen Mother needed a gin and tonic in her hands.
A lot of the coloured coins disappoint me actually. But I have to say I really really don't like that twonie maybe because it's supposed to be a "real coin"
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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All the colorized and hologram coins are generally disappointing. There are exceptions.
For regular coins, I'm not a big fan of the Queen's effigy since 2003.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1051 Posts |
Most of the Calgary olympic coins, all obverses that have the current portrait, the 2010 olympic mascots, the baby coins, the moose with sunglasses, the hockey team coins, both millenium medallions, international year of the volunteers, the milk token triangle, plus everything Iaconic mentioned and everything else goofy and cartoonish.
edit: it's actually the Montreal olympic coins I despise, not the Calgary series.
Edited by 1cent
06/06/2010 3:08 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1733 Posts |
1cent, that means you don't want to buy a couple dozen sets of the 28 coins then?
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The Montreal Olympics coins are interesting I think, just expensive now.
Edited by realpenny
06/06/2010 9:02 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1051 Posts |
Ugly, I'd take the 73/74 mule if someone gave it to me. The other
ones, not so much.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3692 Posts |
One of my UNfavourites in circulation are the 2000 series quarters. The ones that say community, pride, etc. Good concept, but hard to depict on coins. The designs didn't look that great.
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Valued Member
Canada
426 Posts |
I hate the coin in my display pic.
Also, laconic's post of the Queen Mother coin is terrible.
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New Member
Canada
15 Posts |
Queen Victoria is a dog on any coin, I don't like the '67 dimes mackerel, they could have used something nicer like a salmon or trout or a Newfie clubbin a seal, now that would make a nice dime! And last but not least any coin made after 1999 that is made from plated steel. We no longer have coins we have cheap chunks of plated toyotas for our currency. We have been duped!  Leaf PS how many hundreds of posts do I need in order to create a signature? |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I, find a lot of the commemoratives are butt ugly.
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United States
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RCM colorized coins... 
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
632 Posts |
all coins from late 2003 on - I don't know why they replaced the queen with Nixon
a special mention goes to the queen mom coin - the ugliest portrait ever
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United States
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T_y, Nixon for the queen is close, with a bit more hair that would be a perfect match. This took a while but I think the ugliest would have to be the milk coin:  Also close in the race is the 50 Cents Soccer coin. The font is weird and the players are in confusing positions.  Finally, the snowman... just didn't work for my kids. The dinos did far better.  |
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Canada
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I don't understand how they can put a denomination on that old cow guitar pick :p
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Posted 06/06/2010 12:42 pm
