We need more Cow Bell !!! Open letter to Canadian Mint posted by Dan Hughes

[CSJournals-migration]

RCM, where's the Cow Bell?

 

I noticed the Canadian Mint has now issued coins with the characters from the Looney Tunes cartoons. Sufferin' Succotash! Have you gotten so desperate for designs you're now doing cartoon scenes? I haven't seen a coin for a Kitchen Sink yet? How about it? What about a Cow Bell coin? You could even put a teeny tiny working Cow Bell on it, make it a Hologram Colorized Gilt Ultra High Relief with a Murano Glass Cow Bell. Instead of your usual denominations of $1, $2, $3, $4,$5, $8, $10, $15, $20, $25, $30, $50 $100 or $200, be creative and do something like a $37 coin. Maybe you could find an animal to put on it as well other then the Moose, Polar Bear, Arctic Fox, Beaver, Wolf, Antelope or Loon that you redo a new coin on every other year?

 

All of the above in jest (kind of). Getting at the point of total frustration with the Canadian Mint just spitting out coins. Trying to collect them all to make complete sets is really only practical if you buy the raw coins. Trying to keep up with 69 or 70 grades is way too expensive for the average collector.

 

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[uchiha101]

I for one like looney tunes and as for them spitting out coins and new sets all the time I only buy what has value over time and holds it.

[Mr Bo Jingles]

I think the Looney Tunes coins are great and especially on the $20 for $20. I agree, they put out a ton of stuff, but I would much rather purchase these than the Disney ones they are hawking from the New Zealand Mint. That bothers me when they try to sell something they don't mint.

[ddr70-migration]

I'd only buy the $37CAD Cowbell if I could find one in a NGC First Releases holder with the scene of Saskatchewan label...

[Augustus 70]

Yes, they are completely out of control. They have a design office in Toronto, and there are almost 50 people working there just doing designs. I think it is silly and the RCM is becoming a lot like the PobJoy Mint or Franklin Mint. The more they overproduce silly pointless coins, the less they hold their value. I think people buy them because they are a novelty now, and there are only a few of us who are seriously working on sets (which is frustrating and extremely expensive).

 

JG.

[Star City Homer]

A Murano glass cowbell...then you would need the full set in red, orange, yellow, green, blue (including all three variations of navy, royal and sky) and purple (lavender and deep).

 

Sigh. I blame Australia.

[jackson64]

Perhaps they can add privies--either an annual addition with lunar privies ( who wouldn't love a lunar cowbell?) or they could do a series of farm animal privies. They could have a colorized edition, a gold gilt edition, a 1st anniversary edition and maybe even embed a crystal or an actual piece of Ms O'Leary's barn !!

We could have different size cowbells and change denominations from $137, $37, $19 and of course the $3.70 1/10th oz mini bell.