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I just saw this and oh it’s so cute . Glows in the dark and shows the dino bones when it does . I don’t collect coins but I’d love one .
Haha glowing dinosaur coins. They should ditch the caribou quarters and make these ones our actual currency. 😛
You can buy them at the post offices in Canada I think, but you can also order them online right? I’m not sure when they’ll be in stores. They’re $30 or something insane like that.
It’s expensive because it’s a collectors coin not a circulation coin and only a limited number of them were made. The mint makes a collection of fancy coins that are collectors coins only. The non precious metal ones are often intricately painted like this one is.
They do that here in the US, too. For only $249.00 you can have your very own solid gold Spongebob Doubloon! (Yes, it’s a real commercial I saw!)
This is Canada’s new coin . They are no longer doing the one with the Elk on it . It’s one for used by people as legal tender .
Like Flamingdragon said, these are special editions that are not in general circulation. Here’s a link to some of them on the mint’s website 🙂
http://www.mint.ca/store/buy/circulation–base_coins-cat120010
or the main page:
http://www.mint.caWe do have lots of circulation coins that are unique, some even coloured (remembrance day and breast cancer quarters) It seems to be the Canadian thing to celebrate by putting something different on a coin :p
This year is the 100th anniversary of Parks Canada and they have released a circulation Loonie ($1) and Twoonie ($2) coins. Our penny has also been discontinued this year.Just bit so the Americans can see just how weird we are (besides having coloured dollar bills :p ) Our bills are going to be made of a plastic polymer now rather than paper. They’ve released the $100 and $50 so far with the others to be released in the next year or so.
http://canadianplasticbills.com/This is Canada’s new coin . They are no longer doing the one with the Elk on it . It’s one for used by people as legal tender .
Nope, they’re $30 collectors editions. It’d be cool if they replaced the caribou ones though. If you look on the mint.ca site, they do lots of random special coins, but they’re collector’s editions.
But, like FoxFeather said we do enough crazy things with our money. I really like the discontinuing the penny idea, glad they’re putting that in. The plastic money is really awesome too. I think the lady at the bank said small bills would all be plastic by 2013. For now we just have the $100 and $50. Now our bills are colourful AND have the see through plastic window thing. I like them, they’re so shiny 😛
I thought the poppy quarters were kind of stupid though, the poppy always smudged off so it just looked like a weird red blob. I thought there was also a coin with a coloured bit that was a blue or turquoise colour but I can’t find a picture anywhere.
And the plastic money (with the old bill)
if you go to the wikipedia page you can see them all, there’s been lots of different ones in circulation. Not dinosaurs unfortunately 🙁 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_(Canadian_coin)
But, like FoxFeather said we do enough crazy things with our money. I really like the discontinuing the penny idea, glad they’re putting that in. The plastic money is really awesome too. I think the lady at the bank said small bills would all be plastic by 2013. For now we just have the $100 and $50. Now our bills are colourful AND have the see through plastic window thing. I like them, they’re so shiny 😛
They are pretty and feel kinda funny after so many years of paper bills. I worked a casino last night and discovered they’re also slippery little suckers. You really had to pay attention when counting out the things 😀
It was fun working retail when the coins sets would hit circulation (olympic, provinces, etc.) everyone would be sorting through their change at the end of the shift looking for the special coins 😀 We even had some customers asking us if we had the special coins in our change.
This is Canada’s new coin . They are no longer doing the one with the Elk on it . It’s one for used by people as legal tender .
It’d be kinda cool if they were going into circulation but they are kinda like artist edition Windstones; they’re too fancy to be production pieces.
Here’s some of the “limited edition” circulation coins that I have collected recently:(I think these are some of the coins scenceable and foxfeather mentioned)
The US has different things going with the circulating coinage – except most of them don’t really circulate. The statehood quarters (plus territories) finished and now we have a series of National Parks quarters, four designs a year. Then there are the Presidential dollar coins (four designs per year) and different reverses on the Sacagawea dollar coins commemorating different aspects of the Native American culture.
Starting this year, the Presidential dollars are not being minted for circulation – they have a gazillion of the previous designs already in the vaults. Then there are all the collectors sets, bullion coins, commemorative coins, etc. etc. etc.
I believe that several countries have the “plastic” currency. It is more durable and harder to counterfeit.
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