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The loonie (French: huard), formally the Canadian one-dollar coin, is a gold-coloured Canadian coin that was introduced in 1987 and is produced by the Royal Canadian Mint at its facility in Winnipeg. The most prevalent versions of the coin show a common loon , a bird found throughout Canada, on the reverse and Queen Elizabeth II , the nation's ...
The three smallest coins are known by the traditional names "nickel" (5¢), "dime" (10¢), and "quarter" (25¢), and the one-dollar and two-dollar coins are called the "loonie" (for the loon depiction on the reverse) and the "toonie" (a portmanteau of "two" and "loonie") respectively. The production of the Canadian 1-cent piece (known as the ...
"Toonie" is a portmanteau word combining the number "two" with the name of the loonie, Canada's one-dollar coin.It is occasionally spelled "twonie" or "twoonie", but Canadian newspapers and the Royal Canadian Mint use the "toonie" spelling.
In 1987, the Mint introduced a new one dollar coin. It normally features a loon on the reverse. Nicknamed the loonie, it replaced both the one dollar note issued by the Bank of Canada [18] and the Voyageur dollar. For the list of commemorative one dollar coins issued by the Mint since 1987, see: Loonie.
Ottawa slang doesn't differ that much from the general Canadian variety. Like our counterparts from coast to coast, we call a case of two dozen beers "a two-four," we measure driving distances in ...
90th Anniversary of the Striking of Canada's 1911 Silver Dollar W.H.J. Blakemore 24,996 $49.95 No BU Exists N/A 2002 Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II: Royal Canadian Mint Staff 29,688 $33.95 64,410 $24.95 2002 The Queen Mother: Royal Canadian Mint Staff 9,994 $49.95 No BU exists N/A 2003 Centennial of the Cobalt-Silver Strike at Cobalt, ON John ...
Canada's main stock market rallied on Tuesday and the dollar edged higher against its U.S. counterpart, as the re-election of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals reassured investors that the ...
Birds of Canada (French: oiseaux du Canada) is the fifth series of banknotes of the Canadian dollar issued by the Bank of Canada and was first circulated in 1986 to replace the 1969 Scenes of Canada series. Each note features a bird indigenous to Canada in its design. The banknotes weigh 1 gram with dimensions of 152.40 by 69.85 millimetres (6. ...