www.canadiancoinnews.ca An essential resource for the CANADIAN advanced and beginning collector Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/canadiancoinnews COIN NEWS Follow us on Twitter @trajanpublisher Volume 53 • Number 19 December 29, 2015 - January 11, 2016 $3.50 Nickel Belt Coin Club reunites with Big Nickel It was the Nickel City club’s was greatly appreciated by the first coinco show/sale in decades attendees and rather awe in- ClubCl (other thant the ONA conventions spiring to me, I must admit. In they hostedho in 2005 and 2008) but fact, I can’t think of a more CIRCUITC the affableaffa members, spectacular stunning and appropriate By Jeff Fournierer surroundings,surrou great displays and venue for a coin show. local,l l enthusiastic dealers, made As I made my way up the The cold, snowy, weather it feel as if the club had done this walkway and saw the Big may not have been ideal, but many times before. Nickel towering above me (30 the Nickel Belt Coin Club The show’s venue was cer- feet above me, in fact), I was re- (NBCC) show held on Nov. 22 tainly unique. Dynamic Earth – minded of my early days as a in Sudbury, provided attendees home to the iconic Big Nickel collector, stumbling upon some with a warm, memorable expe- monument – served as a fitting Sudbury “coins” including one rience inside at Dynamic Earth. backdrop for the event and it aluminum replica of the famous big nickel and a Copper Cliff medal that really “lit” the col- The giant loonie in Echo Bay, Ont., was built to lecting fire under me. commemorate the work of local artist Robert Carmichael, who designed the famous $1 coin fi rst issued in 1987. BIG NICKEL NOW 51 Canadian Coin News readers may recall that the giant Cana- dian five-cent coin celebrated These ‘coins’ Continued on page 25 Dynamic Earth, home of the are worth a ton Big Nickel. By Jeff Fournier then, mammoth coins have iant “coins” have been constructed in Echo Robust collector coin sales Gsprouted up all over Bay, Virginiatown and Canada over the past five Campbellford, Ont. decades, quite fitting in a continue to drive Mint revenues country so vast that a hand- GIANT LOONIE A resurgence in gold and sil- Royal Canadian Mint on track 2015, representing an 85.5 per ful of European nations AT ECHO BAY ver bullion demand, paired to exceed revenue targets set cent increase over the same pe- could fit end-to-end in many The folks in Echo Bay, just with robust sales of numismatic out in its 2014-2018 corporate riod in 2014. of its provinces and territo- east of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., collector coins, have put the plan. “By reorganizing and refo- ries. don’t think the Canadian In publishing its 2015 third cusing the Mint, we have taken Canada’s first giant coin – dollar is shrinking. In fact, Publications Registration Mail No. 09137 Agreement No. 40069699 No. 09137 Agreement Mail No. Registration Publications quarter financial report, the proactive steps to ensure that a replica of a 1951 commem- they happen to know that a Mint announced consolidated the Mint is ideally positioned orative five-cent piece – was Canadian dollar in their revenues of $928.5 million for to attract new customers to our erected in 1964 at Sudbury’s town is worth a lot more the 13 weeks ended Sept. 26, industry-leading coin products Canadian Centennial Nu- than the 75 cents US that it’s and technologies,” said Sandra mismatic Park. By 1968, five currently pegged at on the L. Hanington, president and other coin monuments had been erected there. 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