The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 10, March 11, 2007, Article 18

MUSEUM HOME SOUGHT FOR CANADIAN'S WORLDWIDE OLYMPIC COIN COLLECTION

"For more than four decades, Mr. Driega has collected Olympic coins.
He started in 1953, when he bought a coin minted to support the costs
of the Helsinki Games in 1952. And then he caught the bug.

"He now has roughly 850 items in his collection, which he calls 'A
Tribute to Champions.' Every official Olympic coin produced by host
countries between 1952 is 1996 is there. He even has many coins produced
by countries that weren't hosting the Olympics. And then he has coins
from the World Games, the Pan Am Games, the Commonwealth Games and
the Caribbean Games, among others.

"Three of his coins date back to the Greek Olympics in the fifth
century BC.

"'I don't know of any individual collector in the world that has
a collection comparable to mine, and I would certainly know about
anyone as avid as I am,' Mr. Driega says. 'Maybe it's just that no
one's crazy enough to do the same thing.'

"There is perhaps one similar collection in the Olympic Museum in
Lausanne, Switzerland, but that's an institution, not a private
collector, he points out.

"Mr. Driega says his first priority is getting the collection declared
a heritage item by Heritage Canada... If the collection is declared a
heritage item, Mr. Driega will have to find an interested museum, and
the government would then negotiate an agreement with that museum to
bring the collection up to date and keep it that way."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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