Mon 1 Jun 2009
I began noticing different types of quarters when I was working in Vancouver and started to collect them in a jar on our dresser. It was an absent minded type of collecting. When we needed milk money or the like, it would get raided! It got serious, however, when I was last in Calgary
With the Vancouver Winter Olympics fast approaching in February 2010, the latest collection has been circulated and Petro Canada has joined forces with the Canadian mint to provide a free album with purchase of a mint commemorative coin (C$14.95 +taxes). But I didn’t want to buy a mint coin, I just wanted the crappy cardboard album. It took a bit of talking around to make the petrol attendant realise that the albums were not on his inventory, “so why not just give her one, eh?” Thanks Matt, proving once again, you get a lot if you just ask!
So my crappy Winter Olympic cardboard album is nearly full, but what to do with the other 15 or so “weird” quarters from years gone by that I have found in my change?
I thought it was quite handy to have found myself in Ottawa where the Royal Canadian Mint is located (even though current money is made in Winnipeg) and also a Currency Museum. Off I went in search of a coin album to house my growing collection. How strange to find both places, though selling souvenirs, didn’t have any albums for a coin collection!
I wouldn’t be defeated! I found that a coin dealer was not too far from where I was staying, jumped on the bus and found for $3.95 a small album just for Canadian quarters! After all my hunting it felt like I had struck gold!
I am finding a couple of new ones each day thanks to working in retail again. And I’m always checking my change for a new design. Oh the simple things!
June 9th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Great idea! Does each province have its own coin? to commemorate it? Know what the bird is by any chance? You’ll be rich by the time another year rolls by!
June 15th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Good to see the collecting bug hasn’t forgotten you in Canada. xxxxx