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TIL Canada is the first country to issue glow in the dark coins for regular circulation
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Silverchasehttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40332009
Happy Canada Day!
Bonus! Canada is also the first country to issue painted coins for circulation.
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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.
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
People kept licking them, it was (is) a problem.
Bills are super dirty
At least the polymer ones can be cleaned and the dirt on them is just really on them and not like the cotton filth sponges.
Look at Mr Moneybags here with a $100
This is awesome
Is that called a Gloonie? Glownie?
Illoonie?
illuminoonie?
Illumioonie?
But is there a Tillumioonie?
A—Aurora Borealis? At this time of year! At this time of day! In this part of the country! Localized entirely within your pockets?!?
Can I see it?
No
Well Seymour, I must say, you are an odd fellow
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.
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/
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).
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.
But they can’t be counterfeit, where would one find this elusive cotton?
It looks fake when not. They make fun of our money but the us’s looks and is from another time.
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.
also El Salvador uses USD officially and most day to day purchases are under $1 so the dollar coins are very prevalent there too.
tripped me out when I got there and didn’t need to convert my cash lol
Almost as if Ecuador knows how to money and the states is a wierd place.
How to money: use the money of a weird place
Two dollar bills? Obviously the work of the devil! Better burn them to be sure!
I still have one. They made sense when $2 CAD still meant something.
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.
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.
You ever have to clean anything that works with cotton bills? All that oil and dirt on your grubby hands is in those bills. Polymer bills don’t absorb anything and unlike other plastics they do get collected and recycled (you know since they are money). And the dies and chemicals needed to make those cotton bills? Yeah not good.
Quarters have been coming out in different styles for almost 30 years, they added different colors to larger denominations maybe 5 or 10 years ago, pretty sure they’ve had holographic security features for 20 or more.
See the picture of the later pointer though the $100 CAD bill posted above (or below)? That’s what I mean by holographic features, you need a clear part of the bill to do that. There are magnetic, uv and micro printed security in almost all bills around the world, but people are not pulling out a tool to read the magnetic franking on a note they recive. With polymer notes its very viable when a security feature is missing or fake (one “trick” is packing tape for over two printouts) making usable counterfeits more costly then the note is worth.
The usd is the most counterfeited currency while the nations using polymer bills have almost zero incidents of it. Yet people (even right here) seem to feel the need to defend their silly green cotton based money from the past.
I’m not “defending” it, I’m pointing out misinformation as I understand it. I made and make no judgements on said information. Also, just fyi, I think this sentence:
…is missing some words or something, I can’t parse what you’re trying to say.
Auto correct. Not viable but visible.
Ah got it, makes sense now, thanks!
I wonder if this is indirectly admitting that they either considered or do spy via coins. Every accusation is an admission and all…
Clearly speaking from experience due to all the nanotechnology they’ve previously seen with their unaided eyes.
Wow. You guys have man made coins. Elsewhere we have to make use the wild grown coins.
or, paint.
Colorful money, seems like this is our final positive claim to fame xD
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.
Maybe it uses uranium to glow.
replaces coin CMOS battery with nuclear coin
Power plant owners hate it when you do this one simple trick.
That’s a resource we do have…we are planning to slowly mutate ourselves to superiority
Or the safest nuclear bomb where the whole population of Canada has to insert a toonie into the bomb before it can launch.
uh, before i lick this, how does it glow?
Likely not radium, at least I think we learned that lesson.
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
Well that one was a kinda big lesson. But yeah maybe radiation “cures” will make a comeback.
strontium aluminate.
Very cool. I need to reach out to my northern friends to see who will send me some
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Bonus! the Canadian mint actually mints coins for other countries. All euro coins for example.
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?
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.
when EU went to the Euro, coins were secretly minted in Canada for a few EU countries and shipped out on secret cargo ships.
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.
I can still see no sources backing up your claim.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_countries_with_coinage_struck_at_the_Royal_Canadian_Mint
This list is the list of countries the Royal Canadian Mint has ever produced coins for. I was recently on a tour at the Mint in Ottawa and they’re currently producing coins for a just handful of countries - four or five, if I remember right.
Look like tar sands ! Yeah we have a toonies that celebrate tar sands from a sessionist province
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I know it’s an Aurora borealis
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.
Message received.
Glow-in-the-dark King Charles it is.
Make sure it includes his sausage fingers so I can tell it’s him!
Justin Trudeau with glowing eyes…just to piss off Alberta.
The Chalk River collection.
But if they’re the first of their kind, wouldn’t that mean they’re going into irregular circulation? 😁
How much cancer will it give me? Still cool though
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.
it’s just strontium aluminate.
So about tree fiddy