Yearly Archives: 2010

The Royal Canadian Mint today released its first new collector coins and gift products of 2010, choosing the distinguished celebration of the Canadian Navy's centennial as the theme of its 2010 Silver Dollar.

This flagship of the Mint's annual collector coin program is joined by the newest editions of annual releases consisting of $100, $200 and $300 face value gold issues, as well as proof, uncirculated and specimen coin sets featuring popular icons of Canada.  Attractive gift sets and new greeting card coins complete the line-up.

"The Royal Canadian Mint is proud to celebrate Canada's heritage, culture and values through the rich and exciting variety of collector coins it produces every year," said Ian E. Bennett, President and CEO of the Royal Canadian Mint.

"In 2010, Mint employees are honoured to pay tribute to the distinguished celebration of the centennial of Canada's Navy while celebrating many other uniquely Canadian symbols through an inspiring array of world-class collector coins".

Below are the featured products being launched today.

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Sales of collector coins from the United States Mint appear to have stopped their three week slide, but not by much. According to their latest report, no new drastic drops are apparent. Unfortunately, also equally missing from that data are significant gains.

While not huge in numbers, the First Spouse Gold Coins saw almost across the board improvement, not that this was hard to do after the previous week's disappointing sales.

Leading the pack was the Margaret Taylor First Spouse Proofs with a 110 unit increase. The only spouse to show a set back was the Letitia Tyler Uncirculated Coin, declining 11 from the week prior to 9 new sold. You may recall that each of these coins are struck from 1/2 ounce, 24-karat gold. That sets their price points of $729 for the proofs and $716 for the uncirculated coins, which is steep for most casual collectors.

2009-dated American Silver Eagle bullion coins are showing consistent demand with 131,000 sold so far in the month of January. Gold Bullion Eagles came in at 6,000. As a reminder, the 2010-dated versions will not be offered by the US Mint until January 19.

A few other striking items from the weekly sales report:

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