On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:29:04 +0100, rbowman wrote:
On 09/26/2018 07:05 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 04:20:42 +0100, rbowman wrote:
On 09/25/2018 09:25 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
We just changed recently. Annoyingly they also changed one of the
coins, so they're slightly bigger and no longer fit in any machines
until they're all changed over at the shop's expense. Clueless Royal
Mint, they do that every 5 years.
At least you don't have Loonies...
Who?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loonie
We do in fact have both a gold colored $1 and $2 coins and they work fine
except for the terminal stupidity that the $1 coin is bigger than the $2
coin.
And the 50c coin is bigger again, but is silver colored and not gold
colored.
And we don't have 1c and 2c coins anymore, the lowest value is 5c.
I misspoke. I was thinking of the toonie..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonie
I don't know if it was just an urban legend but there was talk that the
manufacturing process wasn't ironed out for the first runs and the core
would fall out leaving you with a $2 washer.
I liked going to Canada. In the '90s the exchange rate was unfavorable
to the Canadians and they used different colors for their paper money
with bears, penguins, or whatever in the designs. For $100 you got a wad
of multicolored Canadian bills. It was like Monopoly money.
What screwed me up was liters for gasoline. Between the exchange rate
and trying to do liters to gallons in my head I always assumed I was
getting screwed at the pump where the former Imperial gallons seemed
like a bargain.
Our old silver dollars were large. The latest attempts to float out a
dollar coin have been barely distinguishable from a quarter (25 cent
piece). They never have taken off.
https://youtu.be/TV5ztdWx56I