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new 2005 coins from the Royal Canadian Mint - PHOTOS ON PAGE 2!

LuvdawgsLuvdawgs Posts: 1,512 ✭
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These are some of the 2005 coins released by the RCM that I especially like:

2005 Proof Silver Dollar - 40th Anniversary of Canada's national flag

Here's the glad with gold plating

This is the 2005 22-Karat Gold Coin - Historical Commerce - Fur traders

2005 Pure Gold Coin - Western Red Lily...way beyond my budget, but very pretty! image

Last but not least my favorite, 2005 Specimen Set - Tufted Puffin I am wild about
puffins! I have the 1999 Newfoundland coin with a puffin, and I'm determined to get this set, which includes the puffin. Way to go, RCM!!
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  • DarkhorseDarkhorse Posts: 1,377
    ugly
    gaudy
    not bad
    expensive
    ugly
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    DH don't hold back tell us how you really feel.
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,065 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I really don't like this new portrait of the queen. She looks like someone's grandmother from the animated TV show King of the Hill.
  • DarkhorseDarkhorse Posts: 1,377
    If I divulged my true feelings about a lot of the RCM's products I could be banned image
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,065 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey Darkhorse...what exactly is that big blue coin in your sigline?

    Sorry dawgs...not trying to hijack yer thread image
  • LuvdawgsLuvdawgs Posts: 1,512 ✭


    << <i>I really don't like this new portrait of the queen. She looks like someone's grandmother from the animated TV show King of the Hill. >>



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  • DarkhorseDarkhorse Posts: 1,377
    It's a German medal commemorating Bismarck's 80th birthday by Oertel.
  • LuvdawgsLuvdawgs Posts: 1,512 ✭
    I realize some are very expensive, but they are nice to look at online.
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  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    Cool goodies, Luvdawgs image

    I'm gonna get me some, too image

    You like Puffins? You have any of the coins of Lundy?
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    Tom, formerly in Albuquerque, NM.
  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭✭
    I've expressed my views before on the latest Queen's portrait - - looks like an elderly charwoman. Not regal in the least! Oh well... what are you going to do?

    I think it would be neat for a year or two to replace the loon on the circulating dollar coin with the puffins - - would be a nice switch! Anyone know if they plan on making a circulating Puffin?

  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    I kinda like the new one...
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    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • 1960NYGiants1960NYGiants Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭✭
    Went to website and got "temporarily out of stock" notice on all of them. image

    Gene
    Gene

    Life member #369 of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association
    Member of Canadian Association of Token Collectors

    Collector of:
    Canadian coins and pre-confederation tokens
    Darkside proof/mint sets dated 1960
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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    picked up my double dollar proof set up at the FUN show.
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • NeptuneNeptune Posts: 2,221
    I got the 2nd of the butterfly series today - the Clouded Sulphur and I don't care if anyone likes it. so there. image



  • PuddlePiratePuddlePirate Posts: 728 ✭
    Luvdawgs - my wife likes puffins too. They are truely comical birds and rather shy as well. They are all over the place here on Kodiak, and they have a tendancy to dive under the water when you cruise near them, rather than flying away.

    As for the new coins, they don't grab me at all. This is a set I think I'll pass on.
    "Any fool can use Power, but it is our wits that make us men."

    Collecting Penguins, Named Ship Coins and other assorted goodies

    Looking for Circulated coins of Papua New Guinea

    stores.ebay.com/Grumpy's-Cave
  • LuvdawgsLuvdawgs Posts: 1,512 ✭
    Auld Fartte, yes I have the puffin and half puffin from Lundy - very nice coins!

    DSBTrader, according to the booklet I received from the RCM, the puffin coin is only going to be available with the 2005 Specimen Set.

    Gene, you can usually buy all of the current RCM products from www.gatewestcoin.com or from
    www.colonialacres.com/home.shtml

    Neptune, the butterfly coin is very pretty image

    Puddle Pirate, I went to visit the puffins once on Machias Seal Island, which is between Maine and New Brunswick, Canada. We watched
    them from a blind, and I have some upclose pictures that we took. They came within inches of us. They are adorable little birds! image
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  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    I like the dollar and CD-ROM set as another quirky RCM packaging project.
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    Obscurum per obscurius
  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭✭
    Post the up-close Puffin pix please!!imageimage
  • LuvdawgsLuvdawgs Posts: 1,512 ✭


    << <i>Post the up-close Puffin pix please!!imageimage >>



    How many of them would you like me to post, Dave? I've gone through all my photos and taken them all out, and have them right here in front of me. If
    you'd really like to see them, I have all weekend and would be happy to scan them image
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  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭✭
    Susan:

    Please just post a few which you find the most intriguing, cute, unusual, etc- - I'm sure they'd be neat!

    Thanks!

    - - Daveimage
  • LuvdawgsLuvdawgs Posts: 1,512 ✭
    In looking through my photos, I noticed I didn't have any showing how the puffins hunch over and scuttle run by, looking like little old men. I'll
    have to make sure to get those photos next time. HERE'S A URL with some information
    about the island we took these pictures on, and some more puffin photos. Also some photos of some of the other birds on the island.

    Here are a few of the puffin photos we took on Machias Seal Island, behind the blind, very close to the birds. A few of them were walking
    across the roof of the blind and we could hear their little feet pattering image

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  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭✭
    Thanks, Susan! Excellent pictures!imageimage
  • vrtech99sbossvrtech99sboss Posts: 333
    Great pictures, Susan! image
    ~Debbie~
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  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    image Neat pics, Susan image
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    My OmniCoin Collection
    My BankNoteBank Collection
    Tom, formerly in Albuquerque, NM.
  • PuddlePiratePuddlePirate Posts: 728 ✭
    That's a great set of pictures, cute little guys and funny to watch in the water.
    "Any fool can use Power, but it is our wits that make us men."

    Collecting Penguins, Named Ship Coins and other assorted goodies

    Looking for Circulated coins of Papua New Guinea

    stores.ebay.com/Grumpy's-Cave
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