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🤑✨ Royal Canadian Mint Tour in Ottawa: A Sparkling Surprise!
Elizabeth TurnerElizabeth Turner
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🏆✨ Classic Royal Canadian Mint 10g Gold Bar ✨🏆
Skylar WilsonSkylar Wilson
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💸 Royal Canadian Mint: Where Gold & Silver Pile Up… Cheap
Charlotte BrownCharlotte Brown
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🏛️🪙 Royal Canadian Mint (Winnipeg): Shiny Secrets!
Elizabeth TurnerElizabeth Turner
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🪙 Shiny Secrets of the Royal Canadian Mint! 💎✨
Amelia DavisAmelia Davis
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The tour is not expensive at around $11.75 for a family of four. The staff are very friendly and knowledgeable. The coins available in the gift shop are amazing just to look at with full colour samples and some that even glow in the dark, all available for sale, all legal tender. We were there on a Sunday of the August long weekend and for some reason people were working on the machines making coins. Our tour guides could answer any question thrown at them which was quite impressive. The tour was supposed to be only 45 minutes but we were the last group at 4:30 and it ran a little long. Very interesting and patriotic. (Eg, Canada was the first country to put colour on coins! We're suing Australia who stole this technology and this is why the mint no longer allows pictures to be taken on the tour. The Canadian Mint makes or has made coins for 88 countries, some who don't advertise this fact because of national pride. Ridges are put on the coins to make them last 15 years longer. The rolls of silver we see through the window are worth $300,000 and the same size gold rolls are $30 M. All gold dust is recycled. Some Mint employee managed to steal some of this gold scrap and dust and is now in prison for 25 years. The gold purified at the mint uses superior technology to make it 99.999% pure which is one more decimal place purer than anywhere else. To celebrate this, 5 giant 99.999% gold coins, to represent the 5 nines, were minted and although each was worth over $2.2 M at the time, sold out in 5 minutes over the phone. The one sold to a German guy was stolen and that coin has been melted down making the remaining 4 giant gold coins increase in value. Although the stolen coin was never recovered, the two guys who stole it were caught 3 weeks ago. Etc)
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Nearby Attractions Of Royal Canadian Mint
Parliament Hill
CF Rideau Centre
Canadian Museum of History
National Gallery of Canada
The National War Memorial
Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica
The Westin Ottawa
Andaz Ottawa ByWard Market, by Hyatt
Major's Hill Park
Canadian Children's Museum

Parliament Hill
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CF Rideau Centre
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Canadian Museum of History
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National Gallery of Canada
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Nearby Restaurants Of Royal Canadian Mint
Zak's Diner
JOEY Rideau
Level One Game Pub
The Grand Pizzeria and Bar
Gyubee Japanese Grill (Ottawa)
Aulde Dubliner & Pour House - ByWard Market, Ottawa ON
Heart & Crown - ByWard Market
Masakali Indian Resto Bar
Tucker's Marketplace
The King Eddy

Zak's Diner
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JOEY Rideau
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Level One Game Pub
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The Grand Pizzeria and Bar
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Basic Info
Address
320 Sussex Dr, Ottawa, ON K1A 0G8, Canada
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Phone
(800) 267-1871
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Website
mint.ca
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cultural
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Description
The Royal Canadian Mint is the mint of Canada and a Crown corporation, operating under the Royal Canadian Mint Act. The shares of the Mint are held in trust for the Crown in right of Canada. The Mint produces all of Canada's circulation coins, and manufactures circulation coins on behalf of other nations.
attractions: Parliament Hill, CF Rideau Centre, Canadian Museum of History, National Gallery of Canada, The National War Memorial, Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica, The Westin Ottawa, Andaz Ottawa ByWard Market, by Hyatt, Major's Hill Park, Canadian Children's Museum, restaurants: Zak's Diner, JOEY Rideau, Level One Game Pub, The Grand Pizzeria and Bar, Gyubee Japanese Grill (Ottawa), Aulde Dubliner & Pour House - ByWard Market, Ottawa ON, Heart & Crown - ByWard Market, Masakali Indian Resto Bar, Tucker's Marketplace, The King Eddy
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