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Canada's new 25 cent coin features a dinosaur, glows in the dark and more

by tersiag on 4/16/12, 3:27 AM with 10 comments

• by gamble on 4/16/12, 8:04 AM

  This coin is cool, but it isn't intended for circulation so one wonders how durable the design is.

  I actually think the 'poppy quarters'[1] are a bit cooler, because they've been in use since 2004. At the time they were the first coloured coin in circulation. They were unusual enough that American military contractors visiting canada even raised an alert that they might be espionage devices.[2]

  [1] http://www.canada.com/poppy+coin+introduced+Canada/3806046/s...

  [2] http://www.thestar.com/news/article/211189--u-s-feared-poppy...

• by nwmcsween on 4/16/12, 5:30 AM

  Not exactly, the Canadian mint rolls out all kinds of customized quarters in fact if you are Canadian look in your pocket and and I bet you'll have a differing quarter.

• by javert on 4/16/12, 7:13 AM

  They could charge a lot more if they did the same effect to Her Majesty on the reverse side. You know, just lighting up the bones.

• by excuse-me on 4/16/12, 4:44 AM

  First you laughed at their pitiful loonie

  Then it reached parity

  Now even the quarters are worth $29.95