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Silverchase@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

TIL Canada is the first country to issue glow in the dark coins for regular circulation

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TIL Canada is the first country to issue glow in the dark coins for regular circulation

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Silverchase@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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Canada "toonie" coin glows in the dark
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The "toonie" will be the world's first glow-in-the-dark coin in circulation, says Royal Canadian Mint.

Happy Canada Day!

Bonus! Canada is also the first country to issue painted coins for circulation.

  • Jiral@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I couldn’t find anything on that, do you have a source for the Canadian Mint making “all euro coins” and what that is intended to mean?

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      Idk but they’re not making France’s coins (casually being almost 10 times older than the Canadian mint). Germany even has more than one national mint I think, so I doubt they’re making theirs either.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      9 hours ago

      when EU went to the Euro, coins were secretly minted in Canada for a few EU countries and shipped out on secret cargo ships.

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        Are you sure?

        I couldn’t find anything documented about that:

        Royal Canadian Mint of Winnipeg: 0 results

        Royal Canadian Mint of Ottawa: 0 results

        That site is usually fairly accurate. For example, Greek Euro coins in 2002 were minted both in Greece and In Spain/France/Finland (depending on the value) because Greece didn’t meete the criteria for a while and was accepted later than other countries, with less time to minr coins. The non-Greece minted coins have a small letter hidden in a star denoting the country they were minted in: E for Spain (España), F for France, S for Finland (Suomi). Take the 2 Euro coin for example: https://en.numista.com/120

        75,400,000 were minted in Greece, 70,000,000 in Finland.

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_countries_with_coinage_struck_at_the_Royal_Canadian_Mint

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        This list is the list of countries the Royal Canadian Mint has ever produced coins for. I was recently on a tour at the Mint in Ottawa and they’re currently producing coins for a just handful of countries - four or five, if I remember right.

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