Happy Canada Day!
Bonus! Canada is also the first country to issue painted coins for circulation.
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- Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish35 minutes
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.caEnglish2 hours
Bonus! the Canadian mint actually mints coins for other countries. All euro coins for example.
- Jiral@lemmy.worldEnglish2 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.caEnglish34 minutes
when EU went to the Euro, coins were secretly minted in Canada for a few EU countries and shipped out on secret cargo ships.
- pedz@lemmy.caEnglish4 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.caEnglish33 minutes
“filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology
or, paint.
39 minutesAmericans 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).
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish25 minutes
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.
- JimVanDeventer@lemmy.worldEnglish11 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.caEnglish5 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?!?
- 15 hours
Colorful money, seems like this is our final positive claim to fame xD
- Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyzEnglish13 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.caEnglish2 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!
- 17 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.xyzEnglish13 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.
