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Olympic Venues Encrusted with Lucky Loonies |
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Well, it had to be expected. In 2002, Trent Evans, the Canadian official ice-keeper at the Salt Lake Winter Olympics was approached by members of the Canadian team who pointed out that the was no centre ice "button" on the design laid down by the Salt Lake designers. He set about to remedy the situation and while he was at it, decided to embed a one dollar coin in the ice. Both the men's and women's hockey teams won gold, the Loonie story got exposed and a tradition was born. The Salt Lake City Loonie is now in the Hockey Hall of Fame. |
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Last night on Global TV, being broadcast from Whistler all week as part of the "Two Years to Go" 2010 Olympic celebrations, John Furlong, the VanOC CEO confessed that "lots" of Olympic Loonies were being embedded in all the Olympic venues being built in Vancouver and Whistler. In fact, he confessed to tossing in a few himself and seeing "many" others doing the same thing.
So is this going to be an unfair advantage to the Canadian Team. Do we care? Millions have been spent by the Government and private corporate sponsors to train the teams coming into these games and the results are being seen in the medals being won by Canadians in this year's skiers and sliders all over the world. We're in great shape for 2010 and having a few hundred Loonies in the concrete of the various venues can only add to the karma. |
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| Maybe the Canucks should try it.
Here's a snippet of last night's Global podcast. |
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| Other Olympic Pages Coins: The Vancouver 2010 Olympic coins are available in our store. They are not available for shipment outside North America at this time. According to a page 4 article in the June 25, 2007 issue of Coin World , the Royal Canadian Mint now has an agreement, with the United States Olympic Committee, to allow sales of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic coins to the United States. It appears the coins are not yet available for delivery outside North America. The Vancouver 2010 Olympics 50-coin program, the largest yet for any country, started in February, but stalled in April, when Vanoc, the Vancouver Olympic organizers, and the Mint started enforcing a ban on sales outside Canada, as they had no distribution agreement in place with individual nations' Olympic Committees. Canadian and U.S. residents can now order the coins, and get information about them, by calling Brian Grant Duff at (604)684 4613. By order of Vanoc, we are not allowed to display, describe, or sell the coins on our website, on radio, or on television. No terms of the agreement with the U.S. Olympic Committee were available at the time the Coin World article was written. The Canadian Numismatic Society email newsletter has been hinting for some weeks that a distribution deal with the States was imminent. It appears we can now ship Vancouver 2010 Olympic coins and souvenir holders to clients in Canada and the United States. 2006 Proof Olympic Lucky Loony in a Bookmark |
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Stamps: 2003 2010 Olympic Overprint attached stamp booklet trio |
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Newsletters: Royal Canadian Mint releases Freestyle Skiing quarter |
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