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Canada first minted a silver dollar coin in 1935 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of George V's reign as king. [4] The voyageur dollar , so named because it featured an Indigenous person and a French voyageur paddling a canoe on the reverse, was minted in silver until 1967, after which it was composed primarily of nickel. [ 5 ]
British cryptographic expert David Everett [5] is the technical architect of the MintChip program for the Royal Canadian Mint. [6] A related smartcard initiative, the Mondex cash card was launched experimentally in the United Kingdom in 1994 but failed to attract commercial interest, [7] but MasterCard's implementation of Mondex smartcards in the United States was, as of October 2013, still ...
The Canadian silver dollar (French: Dollar argent du Canada) was first issued by the Royal Canadian Mint in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V.The coin's reverse design was sculpted by Emanuel Hahn and portrays a voyageur and a person of Indigenous descent paddling a birch-bark canoe.
Actor Ryan Reynolds tweeted that he's trying to bring his mobile service company, Mint Mobile, to Canada. Experts say, that's a tough fight against incumbent wireless providers.
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In 2007, the mint also released a $75 coloured gold coin featuring RCMP officers astride their horses, as part of an extensive program of collector coins celebrating the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. This coin, designed by Cecily Mok, is composed of 58.33% gold and 41.67% silver. The mint also issued two bullion coins in celebration of the RCMP.
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On 3 May 2007, the Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a Gold Maple Leaf coin with a nominal face value of $1 million and a metal value of over $3.5 million, referred to as a Big Maple Leaf. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It measures 50 cm in diameter by 3 cm thick and has a mass of 100 kg , with a purity of 99.999%.