These new commems came out late last week. Some fellow collectors get notifications from the RCM but I just check their "Commemorative Circulation Program" page regularly.
I wait until the usual three sets of commems have all been released and then buy them off eBay. I don't use enough cash to hope to find them all in my change. In the past three years I've found only two Charles III commems in circulation, both the same (non-coloured RCAF centennial). If you add the Elizabeth coins issued in 2023 under Charles, that's two more.
These new commems came out late last week. Some fellow collectors get notifications from the RCM but I just check their "Commemorative Circulation Program" page regularly.
I wait until the usual three sets of commems have all been released and then buy them off eBay. I don't use enough cash to hope to find them all in my change. In the past three years I've found only two Charles III commems in circulation, both the same (non-coloured RCAF centennial). If you add the Elizabeth coins issued in 2023 under Charles, that's two more.
EBay is my only source for new Canadian coins as the RCM doesn’t ship direct to collectors in the UK And there are very few if any distributors for Canadian coins in our country.
Back in 2018 I think, or maybe 2017, one of our fellow British Numista friends asked me to order and send him an RCM year set for his baby's birth year because he couldn't do it from the UK.
Some eBay sellers who deal in RCM coins are just ordinary people (i.e. not pro coin sellers) who get rolls from the bank and make sets with them. Some overprice them, others are very reasonable, and of course I'm willing to pay the extra money for the convenience of receiving the set at home with minimal effort on my part.
I already have the full set of regular (non-commem) 2025 coins. I always get a 50c coin at the same time, and these, so far as I know, cannot be obtained through the banks as they are non-circulating (technically still circulating, but only struck for sets and in rolls).
I always buy from one particular guy on eBay, he has reasonable prices and realistic postage and packing. Some are way over the top and I avoid those like the plague
Yes — some sell them for ridiculously high prices. Usually, I wait three weeks to a month and prices go down because there is too much competition for this kind of market — which is good for us collectors.
Here are the two new commems in the catalogue, but for some reason three of the four images are only thumbnails:
Yes — some sell them for ridiculously high prices. Usually, I wait three weeks to a month and prices go down because there is too much competition for this kind of market — which is good for us collectors.
Here are the two new commems in the catalogue, but for some reason three of the four images are only thumbnails:
These are obviously CGI (90+% sure) and as such are obviously taken directly from the mint page (example). We credit way to many bullion/coin peddler sites with CG images from mint pages.
These are obviously CGI (90+% sure) and as such are obviously taken directly from the mint page (example). We credit way to many bullion/coin peddler sites with CG images from mint pages.
Shouldn't matter for these. Numista doesn't have permission to use pictures from the Royal Canadian Mint either.
It seems most our photos for the recent (last 2–3 years at least) Canadian additions are by Frenchlover (his own photos), monnaiecanada.com (example) and The Coin Shoppe (example). These last two seem to me to be using the RCM images.
