Canadian currency 101

[yubsie]

Since Sunny was asking about it during last night's (AWESOME) episode of How I Met Your Mother...

Yes, the Canadian five dollar bill really does have a picture of kids playing hockey on it. But while there is a beaver on our nickle, there is no moose on any of our coins.

It's a caribou.

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[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

Hilarious!

[yubsie]

The ten has "In Flanders Fields". The five has... "The Hockey Sweater". :p Our money is AWESOME. :p

[savepureness.livejournal.com]

Yay for original national symbols - who needs dead people anyway? :p

[yubsie]

We have dead guys on some of our bills, but we made them more interesting than that. :D

Every once in a while I find a really old coin with a dead guy on it and it's strange. :p

[neekabe.livejournal.com]

My favourite is explaining to tourists about our coinage
me: "It's called a loonie, because that's a loom on the back"
them: 0_o? You know, in the US, 'loonie' is slang-
me: for crazy person. Here too. Now the two dollar coin is called a "toonie" because it's two loonies. Yep. There was much debate over this. Toonie won out over dubloonie"

[yubsie]

Don't forget the discussion of whether it should be twonie or toonie. :p

Loonie is a versatile word. It can be a dollar AND a crazy person. Context will make it clear, really. :p

[chaumiamor.livejournal.com]

IT'S A REINDEER.

[i-paint-the-sky.livejournal.com]

Actually it's a caribou ^_^

[yubsie]

^ What she said. :p

[i-paint-the-sky.livejournal.com]

Either way, not a moose. Sorry Barney.

[yubsie]

It doesn't even begin to resemble a moose. :p

[chaumiamor.livejournal.com]

Actually it's the same thing.

Srsly, gais. Come on.

[i-paint-the-sky.livejournal.com]

I actually did not know that!

[littledivinity.livejournal.com]

TRUE STORY: Tessie actually sent me a Canadian 5 one time, I still have it in with all of my hockey memorabilia.

It's really pretty.

[yubsie]

That's kinda awesome. :p

[ravens-canticle.livejournal.com]

Why is American money so boring -__-

[yubsie]

I was asking myself that every time I had to look at the number to know what denomination a bill was when I was in the States. :p

[chibifrieza.livejournal.com]

I remember when the new bills came out. I think it was the last time I worked at DQ. :P They look like friggin' Euros compared with the old ones, and I hadn't been paying attention to the fact that new ones were being released, so the day I got a customer paying with a new five, I was completely thrown. I actually looked for the part that said "This note is legal tender" before I put it in the till. XD They're so shiny and fancy! And now it's the old ones that look weird. I had a guy in a couple weeks ago, moved here from somewhere in the North of England, and he almost gave me an old five before realising he had exact change. We had a great conversation about British and European currency, latitudes of world capitals, and relative populations thereof. Did you know London's the biggest city in Europe?

[gabri-jade.livejournal.com]

I like Canadian money. It's more interesting than ours. Although the Mint's been changing up the coins in the last decade or so. The state/territory quarters are rather pretty. Finally, I only mutter, "Why is our money so boring compared to everyone else's?" half the time when I open my wallet, instead of every time. :P