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Royal Canadian Mint Lucky Loonie - Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002 brought good fortune to Canada as men's and women's hockey teams skated to victory over a Lucky Loonie buried secretly beneath centre ice.
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|  | |  | | | Loonie Canadians love the Gold-coloured Bronze-plated One-dollar Coin Common Loon and of Queen Elizabeth II | | SKU:
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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Condition: Used | | | The Queen and The Bear
The Toonie has the picture of the Queen on its head side and the picture of the Polar Bear on its tail side. Since Canadians worship the Queen, this is undisputed proof that Canadians also worship the Bear.
Joke
Q. What's on the Canadian two-dollar-coin?
A. The Queen with the Bear [bare] behind!
[edit] Naming
Introduction of the two-dollar-coin to replace the two-dollar-note brought about a discussion of the possible nicknames for the bear. Early candidates included "bearlie", "doubloon" (portmanteau of "double" and "loon"), "twoonie" (portmanteau of "two" and "lonnie"), "polar" (named for the type of bear), and "Bouchard" (after the Quebec separatist leader due to early coin defect with separable inner disc). | | | |
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| | Features | The design for the coin was meant to be a voyageur theme, similar to the country's previous one dollar/silver dollar coin, but the master dies were lost by the courier service while in transit to the Royal Canadian Mint in Winnipeg. In order to avoid possible counterfeiting, a loon design was usedThe coin has become the symbol of its currency. Newspapers will often discuss the rate at which the loonie is trading against the United States "greenback"The nickname loonie (huard in French), initially a slang term for the Canadian dollar, became so widely recognized that in 2006 the Royal Canadian Mint secured the rights to the name "Loonie".The coin -- an 11-sided polygon -- is made of Aureate, a bronze-electroplated nickel combination. The total composition of the coin is 91.5% nickel and 8.5% bronze. The bronze is about 88% copper and 12% tin.Loonie is the name Canadians have given the gold-coloured, bronze-plated, one-dollar coin shortly after its introduction in 1987. It bears images of a common loon, a well-known Canadian bird, on the reverse, and of Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse.
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