Canadian Coins RCM/MRC#, What is the Point of Them?

Happy New Year, everyone!

Quick question (or not that quick one), what is the point of these lines in the Canadian coins with RCM/MRC#? Are they different types of coins? How do I distinguish between these types? Or are they all same? Then why do so many coins have so many lines?

As an example:

N#353891

N#353894

And others.

I would appreciate your input.

Royal Canadian Mint merchandise number.  That's the number that you would be ordering from the mint. A coin in a Blue Box would have a different number than the same coin in a Red Box.  

These numbers are a gift from the last referee. There are multiple posts complaining about them and the Admins have “promised” they would be cleaned up “sometime.”

Probably the most comprehensive post about them:  https://en.numista.com/forum/topic138868.html

rsirian1

Royal Canadian Mint merchandise number.  That's the number that you would be ordering from the mint. A coin in a Blue Box would have a different number than the same coin in a Red Box.  

 

These numbers are a gift from the last referee. There are multiple posts complaining about them and the Admins have “promised” they would be cleaned up “sometime.”

 

Probably the most comprehensive post about them:  https://en.numista.com/forum/topic138868.html

Thank you! Hopefully it will be cleaned up sometime.

Also here, why are there separate lines for Uncirculated and Brilliant Uncirculated? Seems to be very unnecessary.

N#472

We're all agreeing, Canada was pushed into the Middle Ages by some “well meaning” people, where the catalog had nothing to do with the general need of Members not Canadian (most of numista's members BTW).

I thought I was alone in seeing the irrelevance of such detailed categorizations on a site such as Numista. It's not just irrelevant, it's also confusing because unless you check these numbers on the RCM website, you can't know what they mean.

Anyone who collects sets just needs to enter the same coin several times (for each finish or set they own) and add the info in their comments section.

I know this thread is about coins, but a similar kind of clean up should be done for banknotes, especially from the 1954 series when replacement notes start to be marked as such in the serial number. Someone thought it would be a good idea to plagiarize the “Coins and Canada” listings, which lists each prefix individually for replacement notes. The reason on the C&C website is that they may sell for different prices, but this is way too much info for 99% of Numista collectors. We shouldn't list items based on prices but on types and varieties. Banknotes listed separately because their prefix is *AS… / *AT… / *AU… / *AV… etc. has no place in Numista. See for example this 1954 $2 page. There should be one line for replacements for each pair of signatures; likewise one line for test notes per pair of signatures. Any other info should be in the Comments section. Personally I would also dispense with lines for changeover prefixes and add that info to the Comments section. This is way too specialized. The English expression “Less would be more” is a perfect fit for the situation.

These “In the name of Elizabeth II” coins are listed as non-circulating on other websites.

But they are listed as Standard circulation coins on Numista.
But then lower on the Numista page, there are only BU, Proof and Specimen mentioned.

No circulation coins.

Which is it, then?

PietPiraat

These “In the name of Elizabeth II” coins are listed as non-circulating on other websites.

But they are listed as Standard circulation coins on Numista.
But then lower on the Numista page, there are only BU, Proof and Specimen mentioned.

No circulation coins.

Which is it, then?

What does your post have to do with the topic of this post? Your link goes nowhere. Please start a new post to ask your question.

fjjohnson

PietPiraat

These “In the name of Elizabeth II” coins are listed as non-circulating on other websites.

But they are listed as Standard circulation coins on Numista.
But then lower on the Numista page, there are only BU, Proof and Specimen mentioned.

No circulation coins.

Which is it, then?

What does your post have to do with the topic of this post? Your link goes nowhere. Please start a new post to ask your question.

I didn't even know I created a link…

What I meant was, there are several Canadian coins that have these long list of RCM/MRC numbers.

Lists that need to be cleaned up, apparently.
Some of them, the commemorative “In the name of Elizabeth II” ones, are Standard Circulation Coins, according to Numista.
However, they are not. Even in the years list, there aren't any circulation coins mentioned.

As this was a thread about these coins, I thought it was allowed to mention this.

When the referees are cleaning up these lists, they could maybe also change them to “Non-Circulating Coins”.