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Coin Collecting Meets Sporting Events

This lens is to show how coins can honor sporting events, and how sporting events can be accompanied by special rounds that are often simply referred to as coins.

Every major sport produces a coin. In the NFL, for example, it is the FLIP COIN.

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  1. Coins for the Super Bowl and the Playoffs
  2. Black Spaniel Gallery
  3. NFL FLIP COINS
  4. NFL FLIP COIN
  5. Olympic Coins
  6. HOLOGRAM OLYMPIC COINS
  7. Calgary Olympic Coin
  8. The World Cup
  9. World Cup Coin
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Coins for the Super Bowl and the Playoffs

The National Football League issues some very attractive FLIP COINS honoring the Championship game participants, and the Super Bowl participants. The coins come in attractive boxes, and are accompanied by numbered Certificates of Authenticity. These are limited edition collector's coins, and make excellent editions to coin collections.
These coins are available as stand alone products, but coins accompanying players' signatures and scores are also possible. These are designed to be displayed as a standing or hanging piece of memorabilia.
Perhaps the most impressive is the forty-four coin collection honoring the forty-four Super Bowls.
Since several thousand FLIP COINS are minted annually, it should be understood that the actual coins were never used in a game, simply designed to be like the ones actually used.
Finding older coins is possible. Online auction sites seem to always have some.

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NFL FLIP COINS

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NFL FLIP COIN

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Olympic Coins

Olympic Coins

Many of the major mints produce Olympic coins in the years when the Olympics take place. Usually, the host country is most likely to release a set of highly collectible coins honoring the event. In 2010, to honor the Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, several special forms of the Maple Leaf were produced. But these were not the only coins produced to honor the Vancouver Olympics. The Royal Canadian Mint issued an entire series of Holographic coins, each honoring a different sport. Hologram coins are particularly beautiful, and the Royal Canadian Mint is the world leader in minting coins with holograms.
This was not the first major release of coins honoring an Olympics held in Canada by the Royal Canadian Mint. In the 1980s, over several years leading up to the Calgary Olympics, the Royal Canadian honored various winter sports in coin.

HOLOGRAM OLYMPIC COINS

Holographic Olympic coins fro the Royal Canadian Mint
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Calgary Olympic Coin

Calgary Olympic coins
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The World Cup

The World Cup is a once every four years event in the soccer world, and is taken very seriously around the world. It is no wonder that many coins are issued during the year of the World Cup.
Some coins are issued early, honoring the event and the sport. Other coins come out shortly after the victorious team is determined. These have the advantage of being able to depict certain teams.
In the United States we have the Super Bowl. The rest of the world has the World Cup. But, things are changing. People in the United States are getting interested in the World Cup as a second major sporting event. Perhaps they will also scoop up some of the coin treasures being minted.
These coins often reflect the pride of the winner, and the fanaticism of the fans. The major mints devote artistic talent to producing pleasing coins for such a significant event.

World Cup Coin

World Cup Soccer Coin
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  • colleen_w Dec 4, 2011 @ 9:58 am | delete
    Informative lens.. Great job!!
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    Nice lens...
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