![]() ![]() "People really love the queen," said the owner of the Metro Coin and Bank Note shop and director of the Toronto Coin Expo scheduled for May 5 and 6. Jared Stapleton's customers weren't collectors either, but people who saw the queen as a grandmother-like figure. "They just wanted to have something from Queen Elizabeth from her death," he said. Most of Cutler's buyers weren't collectors or even royalists. Within a month and a half, 700 had sold for $8 apiece and his listing on Facebook Marketplace had racked up more than 10,000 views, far higher than the usual coins he sells which typically nab less than 100 views. When the coin was due to be released in December, he contacted the mint and was told there were none left, so he scrambled to buy two boxes, or 1,000, of the toonies collectively worth $2,000 from a distributor. "So if you had one, seven of your friends couldn't," Cutler said. ![]() The mint produced about five million of the toonies, amounting to about one for every eight Canadians. It's marked 2022, the year of the queen's death. ![]() The two-dollar coin with a black band of nickel-plated steel features the late monarch's effigy in the centre of one side and the usual polar bear on an ice floe on the other. "There's never been a coin that's had this kind of response." "I have never seen a coin with this kind of demand in the 52 years I've been doing this," said the Chatham, Ont. TORONTO - Colin Cutler has been going to coin shows since he was 14 but has never come across a coin as popular as the black-ringed toonie the Royal Canadian Mint released to memorialize the late Queen Elizabeth. ![]()
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