I would have been more amused if they had "mined" the gold from old tailings piles (the ones around Kirkland Lake used to have enough gold still in them to make that feasible, although I don't know whether that's the case anymore), or at least some mine with an associated settlement, rather than one located way out in the wilderness.
So one thing to understand is that the mint makes more than just Canadian currency. Usually things like this are sorta like advertising their abilities to any perspective customers. Of course they sell to the collectors market as well
Same reason all other special coin mints happen. Personally I mostly don't care, but I'm glad they're using local gold instead of slave gold from abroad.
Dunno but I like collecting odd things. Like state quarters are cool but like misprints are super cool. I’m not going to pay stupid amounts of money for it though
22 Comments
cygnus@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 1y
Single-sourced, mine-to-table artisanal coins. How hipster!
Trex202@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
They had to ruin it by putting that dude's face on it.
hddsx@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y
I’ll bite, since I’m not Canadian. What would you rather have in place of the King?
nbailey@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 1y
Terry Fox, Red Green, Bob & Doug, an angry goose, literally anybody other than that guy.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 1y
colin mochrie's big bald head searing the vision from your eyes as you turn the coin over
xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Heck, I'd even prefer having Deadpool on our currency to King Chuckles.
Revan343@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Tommy Douglas
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
Dave Foley plz
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · -11 pts · 1y
Never met the guy, but do tell what you know from your friendship.
Oh, wait. No, nevermind.
kandykarter@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y
Scott Thompson as Elizabeth II
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
Perfection
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1y
Beaver!
cygnus@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y
I vote that we choose a mascot animal and use that, like Athens did with their tetradrachma for centuries.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y
Trudeau pleass usurp the Britsh Monarch so we can have your handsome face on our coins thanks.
::: spoiler trudeau
:::
WiseThat@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y
I don't understand the point of making a coin that has ~$3500 worth of gold in it, and then giving it an official face value of $50.
anachronist@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
Goldbugs have a lot of nostalgia for the Gilded Age, so they put the face value it where it would have been in 1896.
nyan@lemmy.cafe · 3 pts · 1y
I would have been more amused if they had "mined" the gold from old tailings piles (the ones around Kirkland Lake used to have enough gold still in them to make that feasible, although I don't know whether that's the case anymore), or at least some mine with an associated settlement, rather than one located way out in the wilderness.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 1y
.....but why?
tempest@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y
So one thing to understand is that the mint makes more than just Canadian currency. Usually things like this are sorta like advertising their abilities to any perspective customers. Of course they sell to the collectors market as well
ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social · 4 pts · 1y
Same reason all other special coin mints happen. Personally I mostly don't care, but I'm glad they're using local gold instead of slave gold from abroad.
hddsx@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Dunno but I like collecting odd things. Like state quarters are cool but like misprints are super cool. I’m not going to pay stupid amounts of money for it though
AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
I also don't understand why the mint doesn't have any for sale -- but you can apparently get them at Costco.