$5 Fine Silver Gold Plated Coin - Canadian Olympic Hockey

Isn't 1oz of silver worth $20 or so? Not that it matters, I can't stand any of the Olympic coins; for being ugly and for being the Olympics. If the Olympics weren't a cash grab run by corporations and damaging every city they visited I'd probably dislike these ugly coins less.

The Olympics have come to a point where they are run to make money at all costs, even over our own freedoms. In Athens they were forcing people to take their shirts off because they had the rings on them or anything referring to Athens and the Olympics. They did this because the shirts didn't come from the IOCs official channels. In the USA they forced local businesses with the words referring to the Olympics (such as restaurants called Olympia) that had been in business for 10+ years to change their business names. In Canada this year they trademarked a line from O Canada, something which is illegal in itself.

Montreal just recently finished paying off its debt from building for the Olympics. It had been 30 years. In general the Olympics cost the city and country a fortune. It inconveniences many for the benefit of an extremely small amount of locals and all of the big corporations. There has never been a study that showed the Olympics economically benefiting the host city/country.

Trying to get the Olympics to your city is about as retarded as trying to get a G* meeting in your city. Worked out well for Toronto.

Let's not even go into how it's possible China was allowed to host the games with the way things go on over there.

"In 2006, a family-owned restaurant in Vancouver called Olympic Pizza was ordered by VANOC to pull its sign down because it infringed on the Olympic trademark. However, public outcry forced VANOC to back off."

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNe...25/20080925/


You should also read up on why trademarking certain things is illegal and how it's illegal for the IOC (and VANOC) to trademark almost everything they have.

I have a complete set of Silver maple leaf from 1988 to date with every variety of SEALED ones... I think those Olympic bullion are a slap to the face to the real collector of silver maple leaf ... They produced the first one sealed in the plastic pouch with RCM logo (That I think is a must for the collection) and produce the second and third one unsealed whats the point of that? Broke the collection pattern.... and now they gather a bunch of bullion leftover and gold plate it and resell for over 3 time its value common! Its not usual for me to complaint on a new product as I have high respect for the art of producing coins, but with this one I kinda think the mint looking more for premium than satisfy real silver maple leaf collectors.

and if one of the RCM staff read this message : KEEP THE FUTURE SILVER MAPLE LEAF SEALED IN RCM POUCH !

I will not buy this item as I can gold plate one for less than half the real price... but won't do it...

I may be Wrong....but is this coin not the first S.M.L. ever completely Gold plated by the mint....So if you collect S.M.L's you probably have to buy one ....even if you don't really like this gold Plated Hockey one...I personally like it and did order one....

"Thats Funny, I thought I Joined A Coin Forum To Learn About Coins,
Not Politics."
If you don't think that every topic in the world is connected in some way I have no hope for you. Coins = economy = politics..

oh.. I forgot one other thing...these 10,000 S.M.L come in a presentation box and are numbered...so just gold plating regular hockey S.M.L would not cut it....If a person was buying one in the aftermarket...the seller would also have to have the whole package.

Just thought I'd close on this thread. Outstanding coin, perhaps a little over priced but the quality was there. Not a huge fan of sports myself but the gold plating does make sense.