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Royal Canadian Mint to circulate Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Quarters and Dollars |
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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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$25 face value, and other non-circulating legal tender coins, and collector versions of the quarter and dollar issues will appear starting in late 2007 for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.
Currently, the Olympic coins are not available for sale to the United States. Please check back soon! |
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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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