International Year of Older Persons - IYOP Commemorative Coins and Stamps

IYOP Commemorative Coins and Stamps

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In Canada, the Division of Aging and Seniors of Health Canada played a lead role, along with similar offices established in every provincial jurisdiction. There were concerted efforts on the part of many seniors organizations, for whom the year provided a tremendous focal point around which to advance their concerns and aspirations. As a way to commemorate the event, Canada produced a commemorative coin and stamp. Both were designed by Shelagh Armstrong.

Year Manufacturer Theme Artist Mintage Issue Price
1999 Royal Canadian Mint International Year of Older Persons S. Armstrong-Hodgins 24,976 $49.95
Date of Issue Manufacturer Theme Artist Denomination Printer Quantity Perforation
12 April 1999 Canada Post Canada's International Year of Older Persons S. Armstrong-Hodgins 46 cents Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited 8,000,000 13.5

In 1999, the Royal Australian Mint issued a commemorative one dollar coin celebrating the IYOP.

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Famous quotes containing the words coins and/or stamps:

    No Time, spoke the clocks, no God, rang the bells,
    I drew the white sheet over the islands
    And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells.
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
    What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
    To view each loved one blotted from life’s page,
    And be alone on earth, as I am now.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)