Just a couple of pics from yesterday at the Royal Canadian Mint
goose3
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in Ottawa.....
Got there and while we waited outside snapped these few pics.... Paid 5.50 or so for the boy and I to take the "tour".
My definition of tour as it relates to the RCM is a short guided walk that eventually leads you to the "boutique" or sales area.
The tour was LAME LAME LAME!!!!! There was no one working. They must have been on shut down or on a maintenance week....they did have a few piles of gold and silver laying where you could see them but the only machines operating were the cash register to get in and the registers at the shop (which you could not enter unless you took the tour). No cameras permitted inside for security reasons. Security of what?
I did learn that the only coins that are minted at the Ottawa facility are the "collector" coins made from bullion. The rest of the coinage is minted in Winnepeg (I think she said). My boy was not amused that I forced him to let me take the quarter pictures.
We drove around Ottawa a bit afterwards and I am convinced that nearly the entire city smokes and that they are almost always on a smoke break outside. LOL.
Got there and while we waited outside snapped these few pics.... Paid 5.50 or so for the boy and I to take the "tour".
My definition of tour as it relates to the RCM is a short guided walk that eventually leads you to the "boutique" or sales area.
The tour was LAME LAME LAME!!!!! There was no one working. They must have been on shut down or on a maintenance week....they did have a few piles of gold and silver laying where you could see them but the only machines operating were the cash register to get in and the registers at the shop (which you could not enter unless you took the tour). No cameras permitted inside for security reasons. Security of what?
I did learn that the only coins that are minted at the Ottawa facility are the "collector" coins made from bullion. The rest of the coinage is minted in Winnepeg (I think she said). My boy was not amused that I forced him to let me take the quarter pictures.
We drove around Ottawa a bit afterwards and I am convinced that nearly the entire city smokes and that they are almost always on a smoke break outside. LOL.
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and that little eskimo ROCKS
those canadian cop cars are PHAT
"Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
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Based upon your experience, perhaps that was not as big a loss as I thought it was at the time...
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
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Oh well. Live and Learn.
Those of you that have been in Ottawa....am I right about the smokers or what?
We'll use our hands and hearts and if we must we'll use our heads.
I'd like to go some day just to see where my George V Canadian coins came from. I get the feeling there's a lot more to do in Ottawa than in Winnepeg, also.
Obscurum per obscurius
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