Y’know, it ocurred to me — E2R was around for so long that her effigy in currency was age corrected several times (varying per Realn). C3R may or may not get a chance.
I still say that when Canada eventually goes to a coin for $5, it should be an albatross.
I.e., a gooney.
I’ve seen Bluey stuffed toys etc in the store, and had no idea what it was.
he is cute, though.
I didn’t either, but when I told ZakWife about the coin, she told me that:
- Bluey is apparently made exclusively in colors that are visible to dogs.
- Several of her co-workers say it’s the best cartoon they’ve ever seen. Great songs, cute stories, embedded jokes for grown-ups…
- At least one of them leaves it on all day so her dog can watch it while she’s gone - and she (the dog) does.
Who knew?
Not me. My grandson (3 years old) watches it. I haven’t. At least we don’t have Barney the Dinosaur on our coins.
I live in MI and used to see Canadian coins on the regular. Doesn’t seem to happen these days.
Is his appearance distinctively as King of Canada, or is it simply a reproduction of his British profile?
Bluey is awesome! Honestly it’s one of the best shows around, certainly the best kids show. Both my parents and I watch it all the time, it’s really very smart and talks to kids like they are intelligent. Some of the episodes deal with some very grown up issues in ways that don’t feel like they are talking down to kids.
I love that Australia has an actual Bluey coin, that is hilarious!
Designed in Canada, with a Canadian artist.
It’s been a long time since Canada just used the British version of the monarch for coins.
And she was elderly for so long that, IIRC, the Royal Mint pre-made an effigy of Charles for UK coins, with the expectation that it would be used reasonably imminently, and then it had to be redone.
Canada does have Loonie Toonie coinage. That should count as cartoons.
Ah. Well, while I owned a dog when I was a child, I’ve had cats ever since. At least a dozen of them. And I do like cats, but I still like dogs, and enjoy meeting them when a neighbour walks their dog down the street. Great way to meet the neighbours that I might not otherwise meet.
As a kid in Michigan I remember Canadian coinage flowing freely in our change. Nobody gave a second glance at a quarter with a caribou on it. It was simply a different kind of quarter, equally spendable, like finding an American Bicentennial quarter in your change. They wouldn’t work in vending machines, but you could spend them at the store.
Then I went to Upstate NY in the service and was surprised that nobody would accept Canadian coins. I suspect this is the correct and normal response.
Phoebe on Friends was outraged when she was manning a Salvation Army kettle at Christmas and someone put a Canadian quarter in her kettle.
Heh. I was surprised when a store clerk in San Francisco refused to accept a Canadian penny.
Getting scammed by lumberjacks eventually gets old, y’know?
Too much faff getting them banked?
One reason why the EU countries (mostly) adopted the euro.
I doubt it. The coins are identical in size to the US counterparts, so they fit in rolls and are easy to handle in change, so there was no real need to reject them unless they couldn’t be used in stores. In Michigan, they were treated exactly as US coins, regardless of exchange rate, so nobody cared.
This was probably more of a “that’s just the way things are” kind of thing–they took their coinage more seriously in New York State.
The exchange rate has almost always been in favor of the Canadian coin spender in the US, but not egregiously so. And banknotes never had this same carefree treatment. I didn’t see a Canadian banknote until actually visiting the country as a teenager, in spite of living less than fifty miles from Canada for much of my life.
Even back when Canada had paper notes, they were quite distinct: different colo(u)rs, and in my memory a lot more frequent use of $2 bills. But since I lived in the US, my memory of using the red $2s might be exaggerated. Now they’re also different materials. US folding money looks and feels very strange to me now, even though it’s what I grew up with.
At some point, the US money authorities (the Fed) stopped accepting Canadian coins from banks. Which means the banks stopped taking them and thus merchants stopped taking them. Don’t remember when this was, 80s or 90s, I think.