Kids on Coins

 

Collecting coins can be a great hobby.  Coins can be viewed as artistic creations, a history of a country or just something FUN to collect.

 

THE COIN CHALLENGE

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Here are the answers to last month’s questions.

 

1) How long has Queen Elizabeth II been on our coins? Answer c- 50 years

 

2) Can you list these grades from the best to worst? Answer a,b,d,c

 

3) When did Canada place a caribou on the 25-cent coin? Answer b-1937

 

4) When was the first coin struck at the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa?

    Answer c-1908

 

Here are this month’s questions.

 

1)      Has Canada ever had a twenty-cent coin?

a) Yes      b) No

 

2)    What did Canadians use for money before they made their own?

a) traded furs  b) traded tokens  c) used gold  d) all of these

 

3)    The Royal Canadian Mint makes coins for other countries?

a) True     b) False

 

4)    The Queen's profile, which is featured on Canada's coins, has changed over the years.

a) true    b)false

 

5)    Canada has always had its own currency.

a) true    b) false

 

Answers will be in our next update in January 2003

 

COIN NEWS

 

 

The Royal Canadian Mint is giving you a chance to Design Canada's Next 25-Cent Coin.  Enter the Royal Canadian Mint Canada Day Coin Design Contest and your drawing, along with your initials, could appear on the 2003 Canada Day coin!  See www.mint.ca for more details.  The contest ends November 15, 2002.

 

The Edmonton Coin Club will be holding the Edmonton Money Show on November 9th & 10th, 2002.  It will be open on Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  It is being held at the Coast Terrace Inn.  Admission is free for those 16 years and under.  So come see me and enter your name for a door prize.

 

The new 50-cent coin honoring the Queen’s Jubilee is available. You can get one as change from the Post Office, the Royal Bank, Laura Secord and the Bay.  These are to be spent.  Please use them or we will lose them.

 

Ancient Rome has opened at the Alberta Provincial Museum.  Walk along the streets of Ancient Rome.  Keep your eyes open for the Roman coins.  Maybe you will see Nero!  For more information on the exhibit visit www.pma.edmonton.ab.ca.

 

 

If you have any questions about coin collecting or any comments my email address is thecoinguy@telusplanet.net

 

   

COMING EVENTS

 

 

The Edmonton Numismatic Association hosting the Edmonton Money Show on November 9, 2002 at the Coast Terrace Inn.  Kids under 16 are free.

 

Some of the schools I will be visiting in the next couple of months are:

• Westmount Jr. High School
• Mary Butterworth Jr. High School
• Keenooshayo Elementary School in St. Albert
• Kensington Elementary School and
• Ritchie Elementary School.

 

If you want me to come to your school please talk to your principal or email me at thecoinguy@telusplanet.net

 

 

MY 3 CENTS WORTH

 

 

It has been a busy fall visiting the various schools.  I was very happy to see how many of you actually collect coins. 

 

I hope many of you enter the Royal Canadian Mint’s Coin Design contest.  It would be really neat if one of you won.

 

I look forward to seeing you at the Edmonton Money Show and talking to you about your coin collecting.

 

WHAT IS KIDS ON COINS?

 

Kids on coins is a specially developed program, sponsored by the Edmonton Numismatic Society.  We want to talk to kids between 8 and 16 years of age.  We are looking to:

1. Educate young people on coins (and paper money) and their ever-changing role through the ages.
2. Give insight and meaning to the images that appear on coins and how these images have evolved over time.
3. Let kids hold and look at coins from the past.
4. And, of course, encourage coin collecting.