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Canada will circulate commemorative Olympic coins, between 2007 and 2010, to celebrate the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia.
Previous Summer and Winter Games in Canada, held in Montreal in 1976, and Calgary in 1988, were represented only by non-circulating legal tender souvenir silver and gold coins.
According to the Canadian Coin News, 12 different quarters, dated 2007, 2008, and 2009, will mark the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. The coins will drop the Latin inscription Queen by the grace of God, last left off Canadian coins in 1911.
Five different quarters dated 2007 will show hockey, curling, the biathlon, alpine skiing, and a curling wheelchair athlete, with the Vancouver 2010 logos and the Canadian Olympic logos. Four different 2008 dated Vancouver 2010 Olympic commemorative quarters will feature snowboarding, freestyle skiing, figure skating, and bobsledding. Another three 25 cent coins dated 2009, will show speed skating, cross country skiing, and sledge hockey.
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A 2008 Vancouver 2010 Olympic Loon style aureate dollar will show the Canadian Olympic Committee Symbol, with the Olympic torch and rings. The 2009 version will bear the Vancouver 2010 Olympic emblem.
The Royal Canadian Mint has recently issued 2004 and 2006 Olympic Lucky Loon Dollars marking Canada’s participation in Olympic games held outside Canada. The 25c denomination has become the workhorse of commemorative circulating coins since Canada issued a series of quarters to mark her 125th birthday in 1992.
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