Coin collectors, appraisers and dealers will flood into Saint John from Wednesday to Saturday for the annual Royal Canadian Numismatic Association (RCNA) Convention, which will be held at the Hilton Hotel and Trade and Convention Centre.
The convention will see more than $25 million worth of coins featured in the events throughout four days, said Tom Craig, Saint John Coin Club treasurer and general chairman of the convention.
The show's Saint John debut will mark only the second time the RCNA has held its annual convention in ...
Full Article: Rare banknote and Olympic medals on display at coin show - Telegraph-Journal
It will still rain pennies from heaven and senators can still walk into the Red Chamber wearing penny loafers but the future of the once-cent coin needs some sober second thought, apparently.
Conservative Irving Gerstein successfully proposed that the Senate national finance committee look at the usefulness and cost of the penny to Canadian taxpayers ...
Full Article: Senators give penny some thought - The Globe and Mail
The Royal Canadian Mint marked spring’s arrival with a strong accent on nature in the launch of exciting new coins designed to appeal to the discerning collector and the budding coin enthusiast alike.
A number of popular series continue in this latest release of 2010, notably: the 99.999% pure gold Canadian Floral Emblems series featuring Manitoba’s Prairie Crocus; the 1/25 oz. pure gold coin honouring the RCMP; the Birds of Canada 25-cent coin series celebrating the colourful Goldfinch; and the 2010 50-cent specially-wrapped coin roll.
New entries include a $20 Fine Silver coin adorned with a painted water lily and CRYSTALLIZED™ Swarovski Elements; a $2 "Young Lynx" circulation coin in a new Wildlife Specimen Set series; and, new Coin Collector Cards featuring complete sets of 2010 circulation coins available in four different "all-Canadian" backgrounds ...
Full Article: Royal Canadian Mint's 2010 Spring Coins - CoinNews
Canada's federal government recently announced that it plans to change the metallic composition of the country's $1 and $2 coins to multi-ply plated steel. The Royal Canadian Mint estimates that the new material and production technique will cut costs significantly, saving up to $15 million a year. The mint also claims its new coins will work in vending machines, but ...
Full Article: Canadian Vending Association Doubts New Coins Will Deliver Intended Benefits - Vending Times.com
Ottawa, Ontario — As part of the Government of Canada’s budget announcement to modernize Canada’s currency , the Royal Canadian Mint will change the composition of one-dollar and two-dollar coins, using the Corporation’s cost-effective patented multi-ply plated steel technology.
The current composition for the one-dollar coin is bronze plated nickel, while the current composition for the two-dollar coin is, for the inner core, aluminum bronze (copper, aluminum and nickel), and for the outer ring, pure nickel. The primary new composition of both coins, to be launched at the beginning of 2011, will be multi-ply plated steel ...
Full Article: Canadians to Change Coin Compositions - CoinNews
The Royal Canadian Mint, proud producer of the Vancouver 2010 athlete medals, is thrilled to celebrate Canada’s first Olympic gold medal on home soil with a medallion and commemorative coin.
The first gold medal was won today [February 14] by Alexandre Bilodeau in Men’s Moguls Freestyle Skiing at Cypress Mountain.
"The Olympic Games movement encourages all athletes to do their absolute best during competition and to view this effort as its own victory," said Ian E. Bennett, President and CEO of the Royal Canadian Mint ...
Full Article: Canadian Gold Medal Celebrated With Commemorative Coin - CoinNews
Tiger – just the mention of the word evokes a sense of excitement, power and graceful beauty. Therefore, it is not a surprise that the Chinese would include such an animal in their zodiac calendar created millennia ago (that’s right, millennia).
To celebrate the Year of the Tiger, which began today, February 14, 2010, the Royal Canadian Mint has released four new limited minted coins, all of which incorporate the Tiger’s attributes of excitement and beauty...
Full Article: Year of the Tiger 2010 Gold and Silver Coins - CoinNews
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — With one day remaining before the eyes of the world turn to Canada for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the Royal Canadian Mint is proud to issue the 2010 Lucky Loonie.
The one-dollar coin, which features the Ilanaaq, the Official Emblem of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, was launched at a public hockey shoot-out special event outside the Royal Canadian Mint Pavilion in downtown Vancouver ...
Full Article: 2010 Lucky Loonie Released - CoinNews
You try to put a coin into a vending machine or toss a coin into the quarter-ante poker pot. But the machines and the other players at the poker table reject the coins. You put a coin into an Urbana parking meter and don't get any time on the meter.
The probable problem is that it is a foreign coin and, most likely, a Canadian coin. Urbana's parking meter staff collects the coins and then sells them ...
Full Article: Urbana wonders what to do with Candian loot - chicagotribune.com
