Quebec hockey fans clamouring for a chance to own a ‘puck buck’ coin celebrating Canadiens
OTTAWA—Quick, hockey fans: What’s hotter than Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin and small enough to fit in your pocket?
It’s the puck buck, a new one-dollar coin commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the Montreal Canadiens.
Fans have been snatching up the collectible coins by the hundreds of thousands in Métro grocery stores across Quebec since last Wednesday, when they were released by the Royal Canadian Mint.
Today they’ll have a chance to do the same in Ottawa, when the mint offers the coins at a dollar-for-dollar exchange rate from its boutique on Sussex Drive.
“We ordered 4,000 on Wednesday. By Friday, we had none left,” said Louise Cousineau, manager of the Métro Plus Depatie grocery store in the Montreal suburb of Laval. “At the cash, people ask for five or
10 of them in their change, or sometimes they buy rolls.”
The mint has produced 10 million of the coins, which will go into circulation over a period of 10 weeks. About 7.5 million of them will find their way into the public’s pockets through Quebec’s Métro grocery chain, which has an exclusive deal to distribute the coins in that province.
Métro spokeswoman Marie-Claude Bacon said 3.25 million of the coins earmarked for the chain have been already been . . .
Full story at: Link
It’s the puck buck, a new one-dollar coin commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the Montreal Canadiens.
Fans have been snatching up the collectible coins by the hundreds of thousands in Métro grocery stores across Quebec since last Wednesday, when they were released by the Royal Canadian Mint.
Today they’ll have a chance to do the same in Ottawa, when the mint offers the coins at a dollar-for-dollar exchange rate from its boutique on Sussex Drive.
“We ordered 4,000 on Wednesday. By Friday, we had none left,” said Louise Cousineau, manager of the Métro Plus Depatie grocery store in the Montreal suburb of Laval. “At the cash, people ask for five or
10 of them in their change, or sometimes they buy rolls.”
The mint has produced 10 million of the coins, which will go into circulation over a period of 10 weeks. About 7.5 million of them will find their way into the public’s pockets through Quebec’s Métro grocery chain, which has an exclusive deal to distribute the coins in that province.
Métro spokeswoman Marie-Claude Bacon said 3.25 million of the coins earmarked for the chain have been already been . . .
Full story at: Link
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