New Canadian Lunar series
 

The first of their new series is out today:

http://www.mint.ca/store/coin/silver...ion-prod690001


I'm really humming and hawing about this. I love the look of the coin, but have a hard time justifying 90$CAN for a sterling silver coin under an ounce.

:confused_m:

Re: New Canadian Lunar series
 

No purity stamp.
No weight stamp.
US$105/ozt

No, thanks!

Re: New Canadian Lunar series
 

They just have to put that shriveled old hag on everything don't they :puke:

Re: New Canadian Lunar series
 

Before I discovered the Australian Lunar series, I collected a fair portion of the Canadian series. At the time that I could get Aus Lunars in the $13-$16 range, the Canadian versions were costing me $55-$65. The Canada coins did come in a nice box but I figured (rightly as it turns out) that I was best served by spending my money on the Aus versions.

The new series does look nice but not US $70-$80 nice, not even close.

Canada 1st series below.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2651/...3e51c3a0_b.jpg

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Yeah, and to add injury to insult the Queen picture is a sucky, badly done image without the character shown in this Aus Queen version.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3512/...38f45c6e_b.jpg

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The mint site lists them for 88.88CAD.
This is a 92.5% coin that weighs less than a troy ounce in alloy.
Adjusted to reflect cost for just silver content it is right around $105/ozt.
Considering the lack of purity and weight markings this appears to be intended for use as legal tender and not for bullion purposes. Any explanation for that line of thinking?

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I heard that, I got in the habit of never flipping over a coin from the colonies.:thumpdown

Re: New Canadian Lunar series
 

The pricing of the product is wrong.

Just to compare, the Bobsleigh Silver Hologram coin, has similar characteristics:
- important theme (sport vs. lunar)
- non-standard silver content (25.7 grams vs. 24.3 grams)
- mintage figures (45.000 vs. 48.888)
- requires more important technical skills (hologram vs. plain silver)
but costs 72 CAD instead of 88.88 CAD.

I think the mint wrote the price keeping in mind that "8" is a lucky number for the Chinese... but I think they got it wrong this time.

Collectors want: stamped standard weight (1 oz of silver), stamped purity (.999 for instance), cheap price for such a large number of mintage.

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It's not bullion or (genuine) legal tender - it falls into that category of the mint padding their bottom line with NCLT coins. Generally, this kind of stuff is like buying a new car: it takes a brutal depreciation in the first couple years, and then the price drops to a more reasonable level. Just don't be the sucker who takes the initial hit!

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After reading the stuff here, I followed my own advise. If a deal is good today, it will be good tomorrow. So after taking a step back and shaking my head, I took the same money and got 2 prospector rounds and filled some of my missing sterling silver Canadian nickels I was missing from my set.

I feel much better and still got my silver fix.

Thanks people.:coolbeer: