Ghislain Harvey has been reappointed as director of the Royal Canadian Mint for another two years. The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities made the announcement Wednesday, Jan. 30.
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The Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) suffered through its third fire in three years Sunday night. Fortunately, no injuries were reported but there was fire damage. The Ottawa Citizen reported that officials indicated the fire was started by an electrical short in an electroplating vat where coins are coated. According to the same article, the approximate [...]
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Ottawa, Ontario, January 9, 2008 – One week after turning 100 years old, the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) today released the first new collector coins and gift products of 2008. In keeping with its mandate of celebrating Canada’s values, history and culture, the RCM has chosen to devote the silver dollar, in proof, brilliant uncirculated and selectively gold plated finishes, to Samuel de Champlain, as a tribute to the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City.
This figurehead of the RCM’s annual collector coin program is followed by the perennial $100, $200 and $300 face value gold issues featuring themes which resonate from Canada’s East to West coasts, as well as the traditionally anticipated proof, uncirculated and specimen coin sets. The popular annual coin sets featuring a unique painted 25-cent coin are once more available in five different themes, as are annual baby and wedding gift sets.
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Special commemorative products to be issued OTTAWA, ONTARIO / WINNIPEG, MANITOBA - January 2, 2008 – One hundred years ago today, Governor General Earl Grey activated the press to strike a fifty-cent piece, Canada’s first domestically produced coin. What would become known as the Royal Canadian Mint was officially open for business. “To celebrate the [...]
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Ottawa, Ontario, December 21, 2007 – Under the theme Our Values, the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) will be launching an all-new ad campaign for Quebec on December 27, 2007. The campaign’s spokesperson will be none other than popular TV host and producer Véronique Cloutier, who has signed on to represent the RCM for three years. [...]
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Ottawa, Ontario, December 13, 2007 – The Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) is crediting its patented multi-ply plating technology for a record year in its foreign circulation business line. The Mint’s Winnipeg, Manitoba facility has already set a new production volume record with one month left to go in 2007, having struck almost 1.2 billion multi-ply [...]
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Last week was Queen Elizabeth’s and Prince Philip’s 60th – the Diamond – Wedding Anniversary. Anyone’s 60th wedding anniversary deserves some news time and a shout of congratulations. A royal 60th anniversary is on a completely different scale. And perhaps more so deserved as it was the first diamond wedding anniversary in British royal history. [...]
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Today, the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) released a new coin commemorating the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The commemorative 25-cent pictures alpine skiing. The coin is the fifth in a series of 17 circulating coins to be made, and the last one to be released this year. The RCM press release announcing the [...]
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Once again standing out from the crowd, is the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM). Noted for their innovative and non conservative approach in creating coinage products, the RCM busted a Guinness World Record. And, in no small fashion. The Royal Canadian Mint’s 100-kg (220lb), 99.999% pure gold bullion coin has a $1 million face value. Pricey [...]
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It’s been nearly a month since CoinNews.net first discussed, as I initially described, “The Million Dollar Wonder Coins”. They were made by the Royal Canadian Mint and each coin: Weighs in at 220 pounds Contains 99.99 percent pure 24-karate gold (worth over $2 million) Has a Canadian face value of $1 million (~$940K US) And [...]
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