CIRCULATING COLOR / COLOUR / COLORIZED / COLOURIZED COINS CANADA & WORLD

THERE ARE 5 OF THE ABOVE CIRCULATION COINS WORLDWIDE:

(AT OCT 21/09) THEY ARE :

1)    2004 CANADA RED POPPY COLOR QUARTER. for rememberance / veterans day. MINTAGE: 28,500,000.

2)    2006 CANADA BREAST CANCER COLOR QUARTER. MINTAGE: 29,798,000.

3)    2008 CANADA RED POPPY COLOR QUARTER. for rememberance / veterans day. MINTAGE: 11,000,000.          RELEASED OCT 27/08.

4)    2008 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 50-toea. MINTAGE: 1.7 BILLION.         RELEASED OCT 31/08.

5)    2009 CANADA VANCOUVER WINTER GAMES 2010 OLYMPIC COLOR QUARTER - OLYMPIC MOMENT #1 MENS ICE HOCKEY (GOLD MEDAL / MEDALIST). A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF ISSUE ARE COLORIZED. COLOR MINTAGE: 3,000,000.         RELEASED SEPT. 29/09.

6)    2009 CANADA VANCOUVER WINTER GAMES 2010 OLYMPIC COLOR QUARTER - OLYMPIC MOMENT #2 WOMENS ICE HOCKEY (GOLD MEDAL / MEDALIST). A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF ISSUE ARE COLORIZED. COLOR MINTAGE: 3,000,000         RELEASED NOV 17/09.

ALL PRODUCED BY THE RCM MINT - ROYAL CANADIAN MINT - WITH THEIR PROPRIETARY TECHNIQUES.  AS A SIDE NOTE: FROM 1980 TO 2005, THE RCM HAS MANUFACTURED APPROX. 52 BILLION COINS FOR 62 COUNTRIES.

THE COLORIZING TECHNIQUE HAS VASTLY IMPROVED FROM THE 1st COIN - WHERE YOU COULD RUN A FINGER NAIL OVER THE COLOR POPPY, AND IT WOULD SCRAPE-OFF TO THE LATEST 2008 POPPY QUARTER THAT IS FAR SUPERIOR IN LOOKS AND DURABILITY - FOR 2008, A SPECIALIZED PROCESS WAS DEVELOPED TO ALIGN THE POPPY PROPERLY ON THE COIN - RATHER THAN BEING A RANDOM PLACEMENT.

(p.s. THERE IS/WAS NO NANO-TECHNOLOGY SPY EQUIPMENT IN THE 2004 CANADA POPPY QUARTER  ...EVEN THOUGH THE USA GOVERNMENT PUT OUT A LARGE STUDY/DOCUMENT ON THIS - THE STORY IS QUITE AMUSING, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU FACTOR-IN THAT IT IS TRUE! - THE USA GOVERNMENT STUDY & DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED. I DISLIKE CONSPIRACY THEORIES BUT IT IS TRUE THE USA GOVERNMENT RELEASED THE DOCUMENTS ON THIS & SPENT A LOT OF MONEY - THEN FINALLY APOLOGIZED  ....ETC,ETC).