Hey, how did this shoe get on my other foot? 
I *like *it!
Of course, that begs the question of what’ll be on the coin’s face…
I have said it for years - when Canada adopts a $5 coin, it will only be a matter of time before Canadian men carry purses. Not Chanel handbags, mind - medieval style drawstring purses.
I already come back from a day’s transactions with three pounds and twenty-five dollars worth of accumulated change in my pockets.
Who’s talking about purses? I mean a coin pouch. Mine is about the same size as my wallet, it’s black and made of some nameless Chinese pseudo-leather, and it fits easily in my pocket.
Ditching the penny is fine with me. They don’t even make it into my pocket most of the time. I just put them in the penny dish or drop them in the parking lot on the way to the car. It’s not even very often I use cash for transactions so the $5 coin wouldn’t bother me either. If it saves the government hundreds of millions of dollars that’s a good thing too. I’m sure they are running low on gold plated toilet seats and could use the cash.
And soon there’ll be a fifty-dollar coin that doubles as a platter for canapes.
Or a small shield.
It will be interesting to see projected designs for the $5. Whatever the hell we’ll call it…
Not yet.
Plus the fact that our £1 coin, introduced long after the smaller denominations, is far from the largest - second from top.
Maybe I should smack you for that at the next dopefest. 
I pick up pennies. It’s a habit, and I can’t help but recite the bad luck rhyme in my head if I walk away from them and hope I’m not bringing bad luck on myself.
Yeah horribly superstitious, that’s me.
Surely, it will be “the Wilfred.”
I don’t like the idea. Silliness about tipping strippers aside, I think there’s something nice about our folding currency. There always has been; during my lifetime, it’s generally had nice scenes of Canadiana on it: the mountains, a fishing boat, a prairie, a set of river rapids, the Mounties, and all the birds, among other things. Even when we had $1 and $2 bills, they reflected our land and the things we find and do in it.
The current $5 bill does a good job of showing our culture and heritage because it shows we Canadians as children doing what we all did as kids: played outside in the winter. That’s us on that bill, and no matter our backgrounds (French, English, tenth generation Canadian or new arrival, etc.), the winter, and winter fun, is something we all have in common. Why would we want to stop demonstrating such a kind of shared experience (perhaps a kind of national unity?) in favor of some coin that will display yet another animal or plant because there’s not enough room for anything else?
Like I said, I’m not thrilled with the idea of a $5 coin. Should the economics of the situation trump the pride we have in our heritage and achievements that are displayed on our paper currency?
For the sake of local doper’s sanity I’ll throw them in the trash can on the way to the parking lot. I’d hate to be responsible for someone getting hit by a car just for the sake of picking up a penny.
When I first moved to the great white north from the USA, the main problem I had with the cash was doling out spare change. If somebody asked me for spare change, I grab what I had in my pocket and hand it to them. In the USA, this would be a buck or two in quarters and assorted smaller change. When I would do the same thing here, it could be five bucks, especially after the twoonie came in. If we had a cinqy coin, I’d be giving away the rent.
Clever.
We could always move all that to the $200 bill.
Though good luck getting merchants to accept it…
No room for anything else? Take a look at the £2 coin, including the regular design on the right hand side. Unquestionably more creative than an animal or plant, and IMO better than many banknotes I’ve come across.
I really don’t get the whole “Men will have to carry purses!” thing in relation to the introduction of coins- Australia & NZ have had $1 and $2 coins for years (and the UK has ₤1 and ₤2 coins as well), and the number of guys I’ve seen in any of those three countries with a dedicated coin purse has been zero.
If you were really concerned about it, though, a cartridge pouch would provide a “non-girly” way of carrying coins in a practical and accessible manner- although, as has been said in previous threads on the subject, the reality is that you tend to spend the “Dollar value” coins first before you start breaking notes anyway, so it never really becomes an issue.
I always thought coins would be a bit of a pain, but I’ve discovered that with a small change pocket in my wallet (about a quarter of the size of the wallet) works wundrusly well. And this is Japan, which has had both $1 and $5 coins forever. I never find myself carrying more than a dozen coins or so (at most). You just have to retrain your thinking so that you reach into your coin section to get real money out of there instead of just the bills. I think it’s easier to remember when your smallest bill is a ten. In the states, however, forget it. I always thought it was useful to have a few quarters around, but beyond that I hated carrying change. I think a $2 coin is a great idea, and I’ve always been a bigger fan of the different coin designs in the great white north than in the US. Monopoly money forever I say!
So many of them won’t accept $50s or $100s as it is. If the Bank of Canada did issue a $200 bill, I’m sure it would be just as useful as those notes. In other words, not very.
Slight hijack - the only one of the special issues I ever actually had is the WWII 60th anniversary one. The others are very cool though!