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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WhispTech, post: 103806, member: 1565&quot;]Aidan,</p><p><br /></p><p>I personally think you need to stop going into peoples threads saying that they are medal coins since you have no clue what you are talking about and its actually starting to **** me off.</p><p><br /></p><p>Canada&nbsp; mints coins two ways.&nbsp; One way is where they just make the disks and not a lot of hand work is done and they mass make them without checking them and such and they are used for our regular currency.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second way is where they go thru a 6-7 steps to make a proof coin out of .999 silver in which the disks are hand worked on.&nbsp; Also the coins are struck by hand unlike the first way which is done by machines in mass where a person double stikes them.&nbsp; Your more then welcome to watch the show on it was either A&amp;E or Discovery Channel.&nbsp; These proof COINS are still legal tender making them a COIN.</p><p><br /></p><p>Third a medal-coin is a piece of silver or whatever that either has only one side struck or could be both but their is no face denomination most of the time.&nbsp; If their is a denomination on it , it can not be used as common currency at a local store or a bank. The only exception to this rule that I have seen that have retained thier face value are the olympic silver coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also the premium is for the fact that it is non circulated, and the extr awork done on them.&nbsp; Just because it has a higher price does not make it not a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also your theory is flawed based on that its $11.95 for a $1 coin because there is the two ways as I mentioned of minting the coins, regular and proof.&nbsp; The canadian mint every year releases a proof set of the coins released that year and they are always more then the face value yet they can still be ripped out of their packaging and used as currency at the local store.&nbsp; Again you are paying a premium for the hand done proof double struck coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which brings me to my final point.&nbsp; THIS $1 WOLF COIN CAN BE TAKEN TO THE LOCAL VARIETY STORE AND USED AS CURRENCY THUS IT IS A COIN.</p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt anyone would want to do this.</p><p><br /></p><p>And btw I am at a coin store everyday and I am more then able to take pictures of canadian medal coins since there is two little binders of it of things such as province medallions and event medallions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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