It’s worth about thirty six real dollars so I bought a couple pizzas with it.
In the show, How I Met Your Mother, Barney Stinson wins a $50 bet against Marshall that he could run the New York marathon without training.
When he receives the $50 bill he makes a remark on the lines of "They don't make this in a coin yet?"
I always thought it was a jab on him being rich
But now that I know there's a $50 coin in Canada. It seems like he is raging on the US for not keeping up with Canada without knowing. Barney rags on Canada often because Robin is from Canada and he portrays "a true US patriot".
Interesting
The Canadian Mint makes all is their commemorative coins and such with a denomination. For example this $2500 denomination gold coin. https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2026/the-jack-pine-by-tom-thomson-1-kilo-pure-gold-coin
So there are non-circulation coins of all sorts of is values. Mostly they are worth more than face value as collected items. But sometimes they are worth more as their face value or as scrap metal. I had some $20 Silver coins that I took great delight in spending as my friend got them for $16.
I think they do it so that they cannot legally be melted down for materials. As defacing currency is illegal. It also prevents them from droping in value to far as they have an intrinsically assigned worth.
*Edit I suspect it's also so that faking them is counted as currency counterfeiting instead of as year mark or copyright infringment
The 2013 $50 Queen’s Coronation coin is 5 ounces of 99.99% silver. And since silver is around 80–90 USD per ounce recently, the metal value alone would be on the order of a few hundred U.S. dollars, plus any collector premium.
Tl;Dr - it’s worth more than $50
Better yet, that’s not the coronation coin. This is the gold coin, 1 oz of gold. Worth over $5000 USD.
https://www.bullionmart.ca/product/2013-canada-1-oz-gold-maple-leaf-bu/
Well, at least OP has 2 pizzas for the trouble.
I'll take a ten and two twenties...
I guess I assumed a person would not be carrying around $5k in a coin and figured it was the silver one.
Damn, why can’t I find 5 grand laying on the ground….
Why can't I find 5 grams laying on the floor...
Have you tried visiting a nursing home?
It's the gold version.
I bought a few games on humble bundle with the Bitcoin I mined with an old laptop... Those are now probably the most expensive games I've ever bought, and I don't know if I ever played any of them. At least the people who bought pizzas early on got something to eat.
Those were important though. They showed that there was an actual use-case for the coins. These days they seem completely worthless because all people do is horde them. I have no idea why there's any value in crypto since it doesn't seem like you can actually buy anything with it.
TIL there is a Canadian $50 coin.
https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2026/the-jack-pine-by-tom-thomson-1-kilo-pure-gold-coin Here is a Canadian $2500 coin.
That will only cost $300000. 99% depreciation immediately...
For face value yes. They are only given denominations so they count as currency for legislative purposes. They are almost never used at face value but for material or collector value.
You mean a toonie.
Forgot that the RoC call them that. 😅
I assume this is a joke...
Congratulations dude, you just doxxed yourself. Now everyone knows you're in Canada.
Wanted to experience real freedom.
I'll give ya $60 for it. You know, for the novelty value.
That looks like a different coin.
It is. The one pictured is a gold coin, worth over $5000 USD.
Are you sure it isn't just a patina on a silver one?
Just look at the text on the coin. It only matches the gold version.
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