Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40332009

Happy Canada Day!

Bonus! Canada is also the first country to issue painted coins for circulation.

Look like tar sands ! Yeah we have a toonies that celebrate tar sands from a sessionist province

Is that called a Gloonie? Glownie?

How much cancer will it give me? Still cool though

WRONG those are provincial trade barriers that will be gone by Canada Day

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.

Colorful money, seems like this is our final positive claim to fame xD

Message received.

Glow-in-the-dark King Charles it is.

Make sure it includes his sausage fingers so I can tell it's him!

Very cool. I need to reach out to my northern friends to see who will send me some

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.

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.

A---Aurora Borealis? At this time of year! At this time of day! In this part of the country! Localized entirely within your pockets?!?

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.

Bonus! the Canadian mint actually mints coins for other countries. All euro coins for example.

Can I see it?

do glow in the dark figures of previous subjects, like a moose, a goose, a beaver, etc.

The Chalk River collection.

Justin Trudeau with glowing eyes...just to piss off Alberta.

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?

uh, before i lick this, how does it glow?

No

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_countries_with_coinage_struck_at_the_Royal_Canadian_Mint

Likely not radium, at least I think we learned that lesson.

Americans 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).

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.

when EU went to the Euro, coins were secretly minted in Canada for a few EU countries and shipped out on secret cargo ships.

“filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology

or, paint.

it's just strontium aluminate.

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.

strontium aluminate.

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.

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.

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.

So about tree fiddy

As someone who had to fix the bank machines during both cotton and polymer, you are 100% crazy. Cotton notes are nasty and wasteful.

Maybe it uses uranium to glow.

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.

Illoonie?

I wonder if this is indirectly admitting that they either considered or do spy via coins. Every accusation is an admission and all...

illuminoonie?

Illumioonie?

replaces coin CMOS battery with nuclear coin

Funnily you very rarely see the Sacagawea dollar coins in circulation the US (albeit more than the $2 billion) but we ship a massive number of those dollar coins overseas to Ecuador which officially uses USD. Incredibly common since many expenses there are in the couple dollars sort of range and you barely see $1 bills at all since many people refuse to accept worn-out bills.

But is there a Tillumioonie?

Idk but they're not making France's coins (casually being almost 10 times older than the Canadian mint). Germany even has more than one national mint I think, so I doubt they're making theirs either.

That’s a resource we do have…we are planning to slowly mutate ourselves to superiority

If I’ve learned anything in my 45 years, it’s that humans have a remarkably short memory and repeat past mistakes at a staggering rate

Nifty! And apparently it's a security feature

Annnnnd despite the mint saying there is no maple scent on the 100's$ was there lol