Proginoskes Wrote:In Canada, aside from the mint's recent habit of issuing "commemorative" quarters (and less frequently other coins) into circulation with the flimsiest of excuses,Meh. "Keeping the Mint profitable" is a perfectly good reason, and not flimsy at all.
(And I'm not saying that because I'm a civil servant. I'm a taxpayer, too - anything that lowers my taxes is a good thing.)
Proginoskes Wrote:Doing some research, I now discover that we only have "loonies" ($1 coins with a common loon on the reverse) because the Royal Canadian Mint somehow managed to lose the dies to the Voyageur Dollar.And even that wouldn't have been enough to change the design if someone hadn't decided to ship the dies for the obverse and the reverse of the dollar coin from Ottawa (home of the commemorative-coin Mint and head office) to Winnipeg (home of the circulation-coin Mint) in the same package.
Security procedures exist for a reason. Somebody ignored that fact.
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Rob Kelk
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