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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;torontokuba, post: 1840455, member: 56793&quot;]<i><span style="color: #808080">The mystery was lifted late last year when the Bank of Canada announced it would be offering 30,000 of the bank’s 246,000 coins for sale to collectors.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #808080"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #808080">Not all collectors were happy with the government’s decision. “They should have melted them back in 1912, 1913 and 1914,” said Frank Rossi, owner of Universal Coins in Ottawa.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #808080"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #808080">Mr. Rossi said collectors who already had these coins were not pleased with the sale because it drove down the value of their collections. “A market had been established,” he said. “Then all of a sudden all of these coins start appearing. … This has diluted the market.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #808080"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #808080">In an e-mail, David Barnabe suggested that none of the remaining coins has yet been melted.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #808080"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #808080">‎“The government is considering various options to manage the remaining gold coins,” he said, “including timelines for melting and any resale of the bullion.”</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #808080"><br /></span></i></p><p>If they can get more for them, they will probably select some for sale, again. Regardless of mintages, the number of these in collector hands was limited. One sale already took place, brace yourself for another. Considering the prices they just got, melting will be a last resort and for the worst condition coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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