Happy Canada Day!
Bonus! Canada is also the first country to issue painted coins for circulation.
You must log in or register to comment.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish2 hours
another bonus fact! CDN money has an embedded hologram that will project the denomination when a laser pointer is shone through it. great party trick.
- Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish2 hours
Is it the kind that need to be in the light for a few hours first? Because if so, I have some news about pockets.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish3 hours
Bonus! the Canadian mint actually mints coins for other countries. All euro coins for example.
- Jiral@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
I couldn’t find anything on that, do you have a source for the Canadian Mint making “all euro coins” and what that is intended to mean?
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish2 hours
when EU went to the Euro, coins were secretly minted in Canada for a few EU countries and shipped out on secret cargo ships.
- 39 minutes
Are you sure?
I couldn’t find anything documented about that:
Royal Canadian Mint of Winnipeg: 0 results
Royal Canadian Mint of Ottawa: 0 results
That site is usually fairly accurate. For example, Greek Euro coins in 2002 were minted both in Greece and In Spain/France/Finland (depending on the value) because Greece didn’t meete the criteria for a while and was accepted later than other countries, with less time to minr coins. The non-Greece minted coins have a small letter hidden in a star denoting the country they were minted in: E for Spain (España), F for France, S for Finland (Suomi). Take the 2 Euro coin for example: https://en.numista.com/120
75,400,000 were minted in Greece, 70,000,000 in Finland.
- pedz@lemmy.caEnglish5 hours
This reminds me that ths US Defense Department issued a warning about the painted quarters because they thought it was spying tech.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alleged-canadian-spy-coin-deemed-harmless/
The odd-looking — but harmless — “poppy coin” was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as “anomalous” and “filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology,” according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish2 hours
“filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology
or, paint.
2 hoursAmericans are so wierdly ass backwards about currency tech.
Making bills out of not cotton? Fuck you
Making bills of different values different colours or sizes? Fuck you
Adding brail or addition security like hard to copy windows and holographic images? Fuck you
Coins coming in different styles? Fuck you
Coins above a 50 cent piece? Fuck you (unless it’s a collectable).
- 54 minutes
Nah, I’m all for cotton for money bills. While they don’t last very long, it’s better than more plastic shit 100% of the time.
As someone who had to fix the bank machines during both cotton and polymer, you are 100% crazy. Cotton notes are nasty and wasteful.
- 13 minutes
You could view cotton notes as providing job opportunities :P
But still: I’d rather waste five times as many cotton notes than have even more plastic going around and being lost. At least lost cotton decays, whereas lost plastic will just stay around forever.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish2 hours
US money is counterfeit at such high levels, no one wants to bring in anti-counterfeit measures like other countries because an audit would bring bad news.
It looks fake when not. They make fun of our money but the us’s looks and is from another time.
- JimVanDeventer@lemmy.worldEnglish12 hours
I have so many of these. I mentioned to my boyfriend at the time that I thought they were neat. He swapped out every toonie in the till like this and gave them to me for months while they were in circulation.
I have been giving them out as souvenirs when I visit other countries, but maybe I should actually count how many I have and retire early.
- pedz@lemmy.caEnglish6 hours
A—Aurora Borealis? At this time of year! At this time of day! In this part of the country! Localized entirely within your pockets?!?
- 16 hours
Colorful money, seems like this is our final positive claim to fame xD
- Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyzEnglish14 hours
Very cool. I need to reach out to my northern friends to see who will send me some
Love the concept, but… would have been nice to see a more accurate version of the lights. This one looks like someone spent no more than 10seconds doing a very basic marker sketch for the lights.
Another idea would be to do glow in the dark figures of previous subjects, like a moose, a goose, a beaver, etc.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish3 hours
do glow in the dark figures of previous subjects, like a moose, a goose, a beaver, etc.
The Chalk River collection.
Make sure it includes his sausage fingers so I can tell it’s him!
- 18 hours
Look like tar sands ! Yeah we have a toonies that celebrate tar sands from a sessionist province
Tap for spoiler
I know it’s an Aurora borealis
WRONG those are provincial trade barriers that will be gone by Canada Day
- Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyzEnglish14 hours
Precisely none at all. But check out uranium glass. You can eat off it, drink out of it, made with actual radioactive material, and it also won’t give you cancer. It just costs more to produce.
