Canadian leaf coin ... thing

I'm considering getting one of these just because they are so … well, different.

https://www.mint.ca/store/coins/coi...ic&gclid=CLjIzL722twCFYaXxQIdfBcA6A&gclsrc=ds

 

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Oh, Canada......

 

No, canada

 

I want to know if vending machines will accept these.

 

Get two!.... Certainly unique.

 

You know, criticize it all you want. But remember, people used these as "coins" too: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-earliest-ming-knife.314364/

So how absurd is this really?

 

Considering they will never be used for anything, pretty absurd.

 

They’d make a pretty necklace

 

And destroy it’s collectibility as a “coin”!?! Are you crazy?

 

So commemoratives are absurd, too, since they're "not used for anything?"

 

That’s a convoluted discussion. Some are and some aren’t. Those that are produced as a novelty more than a commemorative are absurd. The difficulty is that there’s no black and white division and different people will draw the line differently. For me, weird shapes for no good reason might as well be made by the Pobjoy mint under authority of the Cook Islands which translates to bullion/worthless. That’s where I draw the line but others will not agree.

 

A lot of coins from the Canadian Mint I look at as novelty. All those privy things. Last time I bought from ca mint was a 3d coin or something. This is another one I might get for me, for the novelty.

But to each their own.

 

Oh. Canada.

 

We used to pick on Isle of Man, Marshall Islands, Liberia and some of those other countries that issued all kinds of novelty and commemorative coins in large numbers, but Canada has displaced all of them as far as issuing coins intended to separate collectors from their money. A couple years ago I counted the number of pages for each of the "issue a commemorative because it's Wednesday" counrties in the 2001 to date standard catalog. Canada had the most pages by a wide margin at 105 pages. That's 105 pages with three columns to the page.

 

Now we’ve stooped down low to dissing Liberia? Lol

 

Liberia, the country that celebrates everyone else's history.

 

@Conder101 - you need an avatar

Just sayin'

 

Yes, but the results are unpredictable

 

the Liberian CHILL "Conder" coin - good for an avatar.

 

Those are worth about 80% of an American Leaf.