The 2010 gold maple leaf coins crafted by the Royal Canadian Mint will definitely offer up a new design, which strays from convention. Generally gold maple leaf coins have an image of Elizabeth the Second and a maple leaf, but the 2010 gold maple leaf coins are being crafted with a whole new design in order to specifically commemorate the Olympic Games in Vancouver occurring in the year 2010. These coins will be the third installment of the Royal Canadian Mint’s World’s First Coin Series which have been crafted especially to honor the Olympic Games and the spirit such games generate.
The special 2010 gold maple leaf coins will come directly from a facility in Ottawa and there will be a total of fifty thousand coins produced for the year 2010. The CEO and President from the Royal Canadian Mint, Ian E. Bennet asserts that the Royal Canadian Mint is happy to be creating such coins in order to create a new coin that is set apart from other coins in the coin industry and marketplace. Like other gold maple leaf coin variations, these special edition coins for the year 2010 will have the .9999 gold bullion purity that investors and collectors have come to expect from Canadian gold coin productions.
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The special 2010 gold maple leaf coins for the Olympic Games will maintain a fifty Canadian dollar face value. The reverse side of these special coins will present a hockey player between two maple leaves, a change from the special 2009 Olympic maple leaf gold coin edition which contained a Thunderbird on its reverse side and an image of Queen Elizabeth on the obverse coin side. Earlier editions of this unique three part series appearing in 2008 were crafted with a Vancouver Organizing Committee logo over a Maple leaf image.
In addition to the special edition 2010 gold maple leaf coins being offered by the Royal Canadian Mint, there will be little doubt that the Canadian Mint will continue to produce the traditional gold maple leaf coins that have been in production since the late 1970s and 1980s too. Coin collectors will still be able to invest in one ounce, one half ounce, one quarter ounce, and one twentieth ounce gold maple leaf coins since these coins are coveted by so many collectors around the world. The only coins that might not be crafted in 2010 are the 1/15 troy ounce coins manufactured only in the year 1994; the Royal Canadian Mint has not repeated the production of such a coin since. The latter coins were crafted and assigned a special face value equivalent to two Canadian dollars, but they did not sell well. Used in some forms of jewelry, the mint made a decision to cease the production of the coin in the same year it was offered.
The standard 2010 gold maple leaf coins will remain true to the gold maple leaf design depicted on all preceding coins. The coins will have different diameters and thickness depending upon the fractional value of the coin, but will always remain consistent in terms of gold purity. Coin collectors can anticipate plenty of fine 2010 gold maple leaf coins, both in standard coin production and in specialty coins too.