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[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 32 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 22 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

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

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Dave Foley plz

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Tommy Douglas

[–] kandykarter@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Scott Thompson as Elizabeth II

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago
[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago
[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

trudeau

[–] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months 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 10 months 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.

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

So one thing to understand is that the mint makes more than just Canadian currency. Usually things like this are sorta like advertising their abilities to any perspective customers. Of course they sell to the collectors market as well

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 4 points 10 months ago

Same reason all other special coin mints happen. Personally I mostly don't care, but I'm glad they're using local gold instead of slave gold from abroad.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Dunno but I like collecting odd things. Like state quarters are cool but like misprints are super cool. I’m not going to pay stupid amounts of money for it though

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

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