An embossed, high-relief stamp with a coin design and an incredibly low mintage enhance this desirable first day cover!

Celebrate the Royal Canadian Mint's 100th Anniversary with this elegant, value-priced first day cover, perfect for a once-in-a-century bash! It features a high-relief, embossed stamp with a coin design, a portrait of Earl Grey, and the June 4, 2008 first day of issue cancellation from Ottawa, Ontario, capital of Canada and headquarters for the RCM. This handsome (yet extremely affordable!) cover is part of an intriguing program that also includes a(n)

    •  Full pane of 52¢ stamps depicting the other 1908 coins, too
    •  Coin and stamp set with a silver proof half dollar
    •  Oversize, full-color book, with silver half dollar and colorful stamp
    •  Inventive, special edition gold-plated silver dollar
    •  Exquisite (and huge!) 5 ounce pure silver proof
    •  Massive (and massively rare!) 5 ounce pure gold proof

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All feature the meticulous attention to detail that have made the Royal Canadian Mint's collector coins famous the world over!

This high quality, official first day cover succinctly captures the essence of Canada's world-renowned mint on the occasion of its centennial. Please see the presentation lower on this page for more information on the Royal Canadian Mint's origins, as well as its commitment to innovation and creating value.

We are proud to offer this unique and interesting cover as an extremely cost-effective way for collectors to acquire this unusual, high relief embossed stamp, meant to simulate an actual coin!

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An Incredible Cover, An Incredible Value!
This stately first day cover has everything one could want to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the RCM (including a great price!):

• A high relief, micro embossed, full color stamp. It looks like there is an actual coin resting on the stamp! More details on this beauty below!
• The Ottawa, Ontario first day of issue cancellation, dated June 4, 2008, takes the form of the Royal Canadian Mint's centennial logo, which is a coin turned on its side (for the number "1"), and two coins facing for the zeros. The RCM logo appears inside the second zero.
• The envelope features a half-figure portrait of Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl Grey and Governor General at the time of the opening of the Royal Canadian Mint in 1908. He personally struck the very first coin minted by the RCM, an historic 50 cent piece. His wife, Lady Grey, struck the very first 1908 one cent coin.
• The mint's historic heritage building on Sussex Drive in Ottawa is also depicted.
• An extremely low "mintage". Perhaps best of all, only 28,400 covers are available worldwide, hardly enough for all the stamp collectors (and coin collectors!) who will want them!

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A Unique Stamp
The full color, mint condition stamp features an incredibly-detailed image of the original 1908 half dollar (the first coin ever struck at the Royal Canadian Mint), by the artist Stéphane Huot. This historic coin was rendered at its actual size of 29 mm in diameter. To further accentuate the coin, the stamp features a high-relief image achieved through special embossing techniques, including micro-embossing! The goal, to give the impression that there is actually a three dimensional coin on the stamp, seems to have been achieved!

This stamp is part of a mint block that also includes the obverse of the coin, with King Edward VII's portrait on it. The 52¢ denomination is Canada's current letter rate for a one ounce, first class domestic piece of mail. The high relief stamp is available as a first day cover, as a block of two in this coin and stamp set, and as a full pane of 16, which features the other Canadian coins minted in 1908 as well!

100 Years of History
On January 2, 1908 the regal edifice east of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Ontario was the scene of much pomp and pageantry. On hand were the elite from Canada's financial and political circles. History was made when Governor General Earl Grey struck the nation's first domestically-produced coin, a 50 cent piece bearing the portrait of King Edward VII, the son of Queen Victoria. A few moments later, the first bronze cent was struck by Lady Grey.

For a young Canada, the opening of the Ottawa branch mint of London's Royal Mint was a confident step forward, even if control over its coin designs and tools remained overseas. All this changed dramatically in 1931, when the Royal Canadian Mint was transferred to Canada's federal government, and again in 1936, when the first "all-Canadian" coin designs, still used today (such as the 1 cent maple leaf, the 5 cent beaver, the 10 cent Bluenose schooner and the 25 cent caribou) were introduced.

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100 Years of Innovation
From the beginning, ingenuity has been a hallmark of the RCM, with a revolutionary gold coin plating process, holograms minted directly on the coins, the purest 99.999% numismatic gold coin and a colored circulation coin just a few of its internationally renowned "firsts."

In 1979 a brand new, high speed, state-of-the-art facility in Winnipeg, Manitoba took the automated production of circulation coins to new heights while the Ottawa establishment continued to focus on numismatic coins for the collector, as well as bullion, refining and assaying services.

Today people still flock to the stately building on Sussex Drive to see the captivating process of transforming metal into coins. The words "Royal Mint" above the entrance, along with the Royal Coat of Arms, serve to reflect the Royal Canadian Mint's British heritage and its enduring link with the United Kingdom.

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100 Years of Value
Now, a full century later, the Royal Canadian Mint continues to create real value for its customers, from the most well-heeled collector to the man on the street. From striking circulation coins for dozens of other nations worldwide, to developing the most dramatic stable of proprietary technologies to enhance the artistically engraved designs of commemorative coins, to providing low-mintage rarities for collectors and investors alike, the RCM remains a world leader in the field of literally "making money".

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