ebrati el ng C CANADIAN 50 COIN NEWS YEARS Volume 51 • Number 19 December 31, 2013 - January 13, 2014 $3.50 New circulating Mint continues to see revenue growth coins have Superman helps coins continued to be very strong in the quarter with sales lift Q3 results at a near-record pace, increas- ing to 6.7 million ounces from Northern touch By Bret Evans 4.8 million ounces in the same By Bret Evans The Royal Canadian Mint period last year. has reported another strong The Mint released seven he Royal Canadian Mint quarter with an uptick in con- coins to commemorate the 75th has revamped some non- T solidated revenues for the 13 anniversary of the creation of circulating legal tender de- weeks ending Sept. 28 from comic book hero Superman. signs to bring out two circu- $607.7 million to $678.3 mil- Produced in gold, silver and lating 25-cent commemorative lion, an increase of 11.6 per cupro-nickel, the series in- coins, each one with two fin- cent. cluded a $20 silver coin with a ishes, to mark the 100th anni- The higher numbers are the 3D achromatic hologram, the versary of the Canadian Arctic result of increased sales in the first time the technology has Expedition. numismatic and collectibles been applied to minting. The The expedition was ordered lines, as well as foreign coins most popular coin, a $75 face by prime minister Robert In Cape Dorset, Nunavut, artist Tim Pitsiulak holds a and bullion, refinery, and Ex- value gold coin with a mintage Borden, who dispatched two reproduction of the new 25-cent circulation coin he designed change-Traded Receipts (ETR) of 2,000, sold out in six days. teams of explorers and re- for the Royal Canadian Mint, celebrating life in the North. business lines. Over the course During the course of the searchers on an ambitious of the quarter, the demand for mission to map Canada’s dolph Anderson led the expe- travelling thousands of quarter, the Mint issued 54 Canadian circulation coins de- western Arctic and study its dition with teams split into a kilometres by sea, the north- new numismatic coins that re- clined slightly from $39.5 mil- peoples, wildlife and geology. northern party, headed by ern party studied new islands sulted in 16 sellouts and com- lion to $36.5 million. The nu- Ethnologist Vilhjalmur Ste- Stefansson to undertake the and charted land that even lo- pleted the private placement mismatic and collectibles lines fansson and zoologist Ru- bulk of the mapping exercise, cal inhabitants had never of six million gold ETRs for and Anderson’s southern seen. The southern party com- increased seven per cent from gross proceeds of $91 million. party, which explored the piled 14 volumes of scientific $31.8 million to $38.8 million. During the quarter, the Mint geology, flora, fauna, data and gathered thousands Foreign coin sales rose from won contracts to produce coins and native inhabit- of natural specimens and cul- $4.8 million to $17.3 million, for countries in the Caribbean, ants of the Arctic tural artifacts, which for the and bullion, refinery, and ETR Asia, the Middle East, and Eu- mainland. After first time opened the eyes of lines went from $531.6 million rope. A total of 1.4 billion coins the world to the culture and to $585.7 million. and blanks were shipped to 16 way of life linking the aborigi- All business areas except for countries. Three nal peoples of the Northwest Canadian circulation coins “The quarter’s increase in explorers are Territories, Yukon Territory, demonstrated growth. revenue in a few of the busi- depicted on Alaska and Siberia. The volume of gold maple ness lines is due to the steadily one of the 25- Artifacts, photos, and re- leaf sales increased 17.5 per growing demand for the cent circulating cordings from the expedition cent to 195,000 ounces com- Mint’s products in Canada, coins marking have formed the basis of nu- pared with 166,000 ounces in Europe, the United States and the centenary of merous educational programs the same period in 2012. De- Asia,” said Ian Bennett, master the Canadian Arctic Vol51-17_CCC_PolarBear_Ad.pdf 1 28/10/2013mand 1:41:27 PMfor silver maple leaf of the Mint. W Expedition. 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