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Royal Canadian Mint Spring Line Review |
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First out were the new trio of Transportation coins, which surprisingly lost their holographic effects and reverted to a gold cameo format. This is a bold move in the program, but the Bricklin Car piece looks particularly effective this way, and has been a good seller initially. |
| As is often the case, the Mint advertising preceded the availability of the products from local dealers. Luckily, the Mint's news releases that the media responded to fanned public interest in the Bricklin and Coronation Jubilee coins. | ||
The colourized 2003 Canada Day Twenty Five Cents is a surprisingly popular Mint product, perhaps because of a relatively low price point. Some gift givers see this type coin as the natural extension of Millennium quarter sets previously purchased and given as affordable keepsakes. It is now sold out. Other dealers asked me if I thought the polar bear looked more like a beaver, or a woodchuck. Last year's colourized quarter, and some of the millennial issues, subsequently reissued in colourized versions, did circulate uncoloured. It will be interesting to see if the new twenty five cents circulates as well. It is unlikely to, particularly since the Mint has now issued a Special Edition Uncirculated coin set, bearing the updated portrait of Queen Elizabeth the Second. |
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Vancouverite Suzanna Blunt's new effigy shows an uncrowned Queen, which is an odd choice for a coin set apparently issued to mark the Golden Jubilee of the Queen's Coronation. The limited edition of 75,000 coin sets come with numbered descriptive cards and new unwieldy WP and W mintmark combinations, but no commemorative dates. |
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Another limited edition series of 30,000 pieces, sees a new holographic silver coin, with a $20 denomination like the transportation coins, but this one showing Niagara Falls. Some additional effort has been made with the packaging on this item and the new 1953 Special Edition Coronation Set. |
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 The silver Proof set is likewise limited to 30,000 pieces, and if seen from the revisited 1953 portrait side, with the added 2003 dates, is a stunner.
Sadly, the dateless coins, and fully proof older coat of arms look odd on the design sides. Like the Canada Post issued 48c stamp, which revisits last year's Golden Jubilee issue and replaces those words with just Coronation, in both English and French, the coins perhaps need a few more words of explanation on them. Could not Coronation Jubilee or Golden Jubilee have appeared on the new coins and stamps? Please have a look at the new coins elsewhere on our site, or in our store, and let us know what you think. |
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