Over the last couple years the Royal Canadian Mint has produced some nasty nasty coins. I am very open about this, as I'm sure some of you know. No disrespect to those of you that collect them, I just hate the appearance of them. Is there anything in this years holiday catalogue anyone here would be interested in? I can't imagine any serious collector taking these coins seriously. The stuff in the latest catalouge blew me away. I feel multi colored coins, with holograms, fossils, and jewels embedded in them are ridiculous and I personally feel that the mint will have to gain a lot of respect back when they are done. Santa Clause on a coin?? Seriously? What is your opinion? Do you like them? Why? EDIT: That tiger coin at the top, is an honest coin produced by the Royal Canadian mint this year.
You think THAT's bad? I was going through the STandard World Coin Catalog for 2001 - Date when I saw coins with POKEMON characters and a Garfield coin to boot! (Though I wouldn't mind owning the Garfield one.) I think a lot of mints are going a tad overboard with some of their designs. I also saw other countries with zodiac signs, complete with birtstones embedded.
Wow...they are....creative, if nothing else. I kind of like the train under the tree. I've never been too big on model trains but I will never forget the one Christmas in the early 1990s when I awoke to find a train circling the tree. I am not sure if I would buy it though...I really don't care for NCLTs or colorized coins. I would not be unhappy to recieve it as a gift, though. LOL. I have no problems with Santa on a coin...the art looks like it is intended for younger audiences...If I had a kid or even somebody else's kid who was interested in coins I would probably get that for them. Since I have neither, I won't though. IIRC the dinosaur fossil, isn't that a piece of fossil or a rock or something that the design was etched on to? That's kind of neat. BUT, if it is fossil that was etched, that isn't cool, I take serious offense at the defacement of historical artifacts.
When I saw those Pokeman coins in the Krause I had finally found a coin that would NOT be welcome in my collection. As I've said a few times I will accept pretty much anything...but even I draw the line on that. Yuck.
Sorry, I shouldn't have been so hasty, no, there is no fossil IN the coin, Nor is there any rock IN the coin as far as I know. Just been colored to look like it. They actually made the colored section looked "aged" to look like a fossil, and no two coins look the same. Here are a few more:
Hmm...what do the animals have to do with the Olympics? Now, see, if the moose was competing in the figure skating I'd be watching that for sure The astronomy coin would be kind of cool if the colorized section was more realistic. Moose and Astronomy are two of the other things I am interested in...but I still don't plan to buy either of them!
That's how I felt for the most part, but that hologram coin is the ugliest thing I've ever seen other than a coin that's gotten run over by a railroad track. Save the holograms for trading cards and other toys.
I did not see one that was any worse than the majority of our 50 state and 6 territory coins, and I can bet they will rank right up there with the 50 national parks, of which 36 will have trees in them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mouth::crying:
add a hologram to the national parks quarters and the state quarters and that might be true, but I personally think that short of getting run over, scratched and nicked up and abused, nothing can make a coin as ugly as a hologram. Holograms are kid stuff and belong on trading cards and toys, not on coins. That coin with the hologram looks like something a 4 year old might enjoy. But having said that, I do think the national parks quarters are also pretty lame and their designs are also pretty ugly, but holograms and coins just don't mix no matter what design they have, it's like a toned proof that still has it's mirror finish, something just doesn't seem right about that.
