58
submitted 1 year ago by Grappling7155@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca
top 17 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago

Single-sourced, mine-to-table artisanal coins. How hipster!

[-] Trex202@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

They had to ruin it by putting that dude's face on it.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

I’ll bite, since I’m not Canadian. What would you rather have in place of the King?

[-] nbailey@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

Terry Fox, Red Green, Bob & Doug, an angry goose, literally anybody other than that guy.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

colin mochrie's big bald head searing the vision from your eyes as you turn the coin over

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Heck, I'd even prefer having Deadpool on our currency to King Chuckles.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Dave Foley plz

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Tommy Douglas

[-] kandykarter@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Scott Thompson as Elizabeth II

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago
[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago
[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

I vote that we choose a mascot animal and use that, like Athens did with their tetradrachma for centuries.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Trudeau pleass usurp the Britsh Monarch so we can have your handsome face on our coins thanks.

trudeau

[-] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

I don't understand the point of making a coin that has ~$3500 worth of gold in it, and then giving it an official face value of $50.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Goldbugs have a lot of nostalgia for the Gilded Age, so they put the face value it where it would have been in 1896.

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 year ago

I would have been more amused if they had "mined" the gold from old tailings piles (the ones around Kirkland Lake used to have enough gold still in them to make that feasible, although I don't know whether that's the case anymore), or at least some mine with an associated settlement, rather than one located way out in the wilderness.

[-] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I also don't understand why the mint doesn't have any for sale -- but you can apparently get them at Costco.

this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
58 points (100.0% liked)

Canada

10495 readers
700 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


🗺️ Provinces / Territories


🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales


🗣️ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS