On September 2, 2010 Canada's Royal Canadian Mint Celebrated A Milestone By Producing a Business Strike Commemoratuve $1 Coin. The Royal Canadian Mint launched a new commemorative one-dollar circulation coin in honor of the Saskatchewan Roughriders' 100th birthday. Who or what is/are the Saskatchewan Roughriders? Here's a quote from Canada's Minister of State, the Honorable Rob Merrifield: "The Saskatchewan Roughriders are icons of Canadian football and the Government of Canada is proud to join Canadians in celebrating their 100th anniversary." Andrew Scheer, Member of Parliament for Regina-Qu'Appelle, adds "This new coin produced by the Mint has immortalized an important milestone in Canadian sports history which Rider fans and Canadian football enthusiasts alike can cherish for years to come" Riders President and CEO, Jim Hopson, expressed his sentiments thusly, "This circulation coin is a tremendous honour for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and a unique opportunity for our fans across the country to show their Rider pride. We are extremely grateful to the Royal Canadian Mint for producing the Rider Centennial Loonie and leaving a lasting legacy across Canada." This finely crafted circulation coin, whose reverse is engraved with the Saskatchewan Roughriders' logo and a stylized ‘100' framed by the dates 1910 and 2010, commemorates the traditions and passion which have supported the team for generations. The Mint has produced three million of these one-dollar commemorative circulation coins which Canadians can now find in their change. The Mint has also crafted a gold-plated version of this circulation coin to offer Rider fans and coin collectors. The coin is presented in a visually striking "pop-up" folder duplicating an official 2010 Roughriders football helmet. About the Royal Canadian MintThe Royal Canadian Mint is the Crown Corporation responsible for the minting and distribution of Canada's circulation coins. An ISO 9001-2008 certified company, the Mint is recognized as one of the largest and most versatile mints in the world, offering a wide range of specialized, high quality coinage products and related services on an international scale. For more information on the Mint, its products and services, visit http://www.mint.ca Here's a link to a photo and more text on the new business strrike Roughriders Commemorative Dollar (click the flip to see obverse): http://www.mint.ca/store/product/product_roughriders.jsp?itemId=prod990001 Thought you might like to know... Clinker
Thanks Clinker! Your threads are always well worth my time spent reading and learning about the topics you present. As for the Rider coin... THAT! is one stunningly boring design!!!
Hi friend krispy: Not a coin for my collection. I just find something numismatically interesting (to me) to share with Cointalk readers and visitors... Clinker
I'm sorry but I just can't see commemorating sports teams on a circulating coin. The 2010 Canadian Navy dollar coin was appropriate but the sports teams should be on non-circulating coins if on anything at all.
It looks like an ad agency designed it. Who knew somebody could outdo the US Mint in lackluster coin design. The Shield Cent looks like a work of art next to that thing.
Thanks to randygeki, blsmothermom, mlmummert and ikandiggit for reading and for sharing your thoughts and photo on the subject... Clinker
I agree with that except that I did like and buy the Olympic Silver Maples that they put out for the Vancouver games. Very nice coins.
Thanks for the post. It is an interesting coin although I don't think the subject is fitting for a great country like Canada. To put a sports team on a circulating coin seems belittling. Perhaps there is some more significance to this I'm just ignorant of. Did the first team beat back a taliban attack on a girls school while the second team simultaneously won the Grey Cup or some such? Something like that might change my mind.
When I see the catalog, it's like looking at coins from Liberia or Somalia: http://www.joelscoins.com/oops.htm http://www.mint.ca/store/buy/hologram_coins-cat210002 http://www.mint.ca/store/buy/sports--entertainment_coins-cat210014
After all those special issue quarters and loonies, we're almost out of things to commemorate on coins. Next year we're getting a set of twelve "Most cherished characters from The Beachcombers" commemorative quarters. That will be followed in November by a new loonie design to celebrate the 30th anniversary of that one time the Air Farce told a funny joke. And then we're done. The entirety of Canadian history and culture will have been summarized on your pocket change. Maybe in a hundred years we'll get one more special issue loonie, marking the centennial of the Royal Canadian Mint's lamest design ever. And some people wonder why a coin has to be at least a thousand years old before I start to care.
I have to add, on a more serious note, that I've never been ashamed or embarrassed by my country's circulation coinage until today. And then I saw this ugly hunk of junk. It looks like a promotional token issued by Petro-Canada. Or a casino chip from a particularly shabby slot-machine wasteland. Or maybe just something given away free in a box of kiddie cereal -- cast in plastic. What it doesn't look like is official government coinage from a western industrial nation with nearly a century and a half of really quite elegant numismatic design to its name.
There is no way that this abomination came from the same country that gave Us those beautiful Vancouver Olympic coins. I personally don`t object to the team itself being placed on the coin, but next time can We go with somebody other than Stevie Wonder as a designer?!? (even He could see how atrocious that thing is)
