Canadian Currency Takes a Level in AWESOME

[gremcint]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...lows-dark.html

I've been hearing about this for a little while now, but hadn't seen it here.

Basically new Canadian Quarter will have a dinosaur on it.

Cool yeah?

well it will glow in the dark...

Even better yeah?

Well it won't actually be the whole dinosaur but just the skeleton.

To quote feed dump, I think I have an erection...

[Boozy]

To be clear, it's not a quarter for general circulation. Its a (very) limited edition for collectors.

[Dreamstalker]

"Was it a big dinosaur or a little dinosaur? Oh, just the skeleton. Well, which way was it headed?"

Awesome. Now how to justify buying one...?

[gremcint]

To be clear, it's not a quarter for general circulation. Its a (very) limited edition for collectors.

damn. still want one.

[bex1218]

Damn, I don't live in Canada and want one.

[Salted Grump]

Come visit, they tend to send some into open curculation as well as the usual 'Pay 5$ at the mint for your glow-in-the-dark dinosaur quarter'

[Andara Bledin]

I saw this last week sometime, and I wish I could justify buying one, myself.

^-.-^

[Gravekeeper]

We have a ton of fantastical quarters in regular circulation. Its kind of funny because it throws you every now and then. You get change back from a vending machine and then notice one of your quarters is red or blue or something. ;p

[Amanita]

My mom got me an awesome holographic coin depicting the CN Tower getting struck by lightning. Sweetness!

[SongsOfDragons]

The Royal Mint in the UK sell these lovely collector's edition coins too. Most of ours come as crowns I think.

I love our coinage, they had a redesign some years ago and I was worried they'd all be stupid modern rubbish, but they're so not - they all have a section of the Roayl Coat of Arms and you can put them all down to make the large shield proper - and it's all on the £1. ^^ Love.

I've seen artists enamel coins - foreign, legal tender or out-of-circulation - in bright colours and sell them as jewellery.

And and and - do you have those cool cog coin pressers? They're usually in tourist places; you pit a penny and a £1 into this machine, select a pattern, then turn the wheel to squish the penny and emboss it with a new pattern, usually of the place you're visiting. ^^ I don't know how legal they are exactly since you're slapping Wookey Hole's logo on the Queen's phizog, but they're awesome nonetheless...

[lordlundar]

<looks at three special quarters on shelf>

I have the breast cancer awareness coin, the "etched in stone" heritage coin, and the Vancouver 2008 snowboarding coin.

And that only covers the three set aside and not in my proper collection (I have 7 true silver dollars in that group).

And yes, all three of those are in circulation.

[Andara Bledin]

US money is so utilitarian. I wouldn't be surprised if that's partly to get people to use credit and debit and electronic payment means more often so that they can be more easily tracked and quantified. Cash makes it tough to direct market, after all.

^-.-^

[Salted Grump]

I just look at the comparison between a 'fan' of US bills between the 1 to 100 denomination and compare to the canadian 'fan' from the 5-100 denomination.

We have Colours! Which is instantly awesome.

[Boozy]

US money is so utilitarian. I wouldn't be surprised if that's partly to get people to use credit and debit and electronic payment means more often so that they can be more easily tracked and quantified. Cash makes it tough to direct market, after all.

I don't think that's the case. People don't use cash just because it's pretty. Canadians use their debit cards more often than any other country, last I heard.

[Gravekeeper]

Yes, my favourite part about Canadian money is you could literally laminate it and send it to someone as a postcard.