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OnastoneOnastone Posts: 4,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 28, 2018 7:39AM in U.S. Coin Forum

I just saw this coin from the Canadian Mint. I wonder if the maze ball is made of gold?

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Does the ball move?? If so, why would it not get lost from the exit - pretty simple maze...and the ball is made of brass..... Cheers, RickO

  • OnastoneOnastone Posts: 4,093 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    Does the ball move?? If so, why would it not get lost from the exit -

    Probably encased in a coin capsule.

    @PerryHall said:
    Looks like the type of gimmick coin that would be issued by a third world country

    @ Also a pass here. I just couldn't believe a coin like this has been made!

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think that's a very neat artsy coin.....is it a pug? <3

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,065 ✭✭✭✭✭

    nice but no thanks. jmo

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,707 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This coin is referred to as an NCLT coin---Non Circulating Legal Tender.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I call it MNNN. More Nonsense from our Northern Neighbor.

  • ShadyDaveShadyDave Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There is a reason why the Royal Canadian Mint is losing money these days....between all the milk spots on their bullion and this gimmicky stuff I'm not surprised.

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cannot wait to see what these look like after being played with. Shucks, they probably come in a plastic capsule.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,667 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks more like a less than imaginative logo for a Canadian hockey team.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,613 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,874 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    This coin is referred to as an NCLT coin---Non Circulating Legal Tender.

    I don't trust the RCM when it comes to terms like this. Remember those Olympic sets with the big 5.00 and 10.00 coins ? IIRC, at around 7 or 8 dollar silver, they melt at face. So they looked like a good bet to limit your silver downside. Some guy in Toronto loaded up for years, figuring he was protected. When silver dipped, he decided he was done playing and marched tens of thousands of dollars of these into some bank (there used to be one on EVERY corner in Canada). The bank wouldn't accept them. He ended up fighting in court for years until they finally settled, saying you could deposit 10 or 20 dollars face each year. Anyway, it was something like that. There's no way I would trust them on legal tender declarations.

  • PocketArtPocketArt Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dear RCM, please consider the KISS (keep it simple stupid) method when developing your offerings...you provide little incentive for your neighbors south of you to raise the bar.

    Which means, I'll be looking forward to a steady stream of reverse proof, snakeskin, empty themed recollections of an, "I don't care" celebration of something I should consider; but, not waste my money on.....who wants that unless silver spikes to $50????

    Raise the bar! Top down man!

  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,758 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wonder what Andy Warhol would think... Could be famous for 10-12 minutes... Not sure we get to 15.

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  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,375 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Most of us 'serious' collectors here in Canada think what the RCM has done in the last ten or twenty years is a complete joke and has done serious harm to this hobby.

    "Gold is money, and nothing else" (JP Morgan, 1912)

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