I also don’t understand why the mint doesn’t have any for sale – but you can apparently get them at Costco.
Single-sourced, mine-to-table artisanal coins. How hipster!
They had to ruin it by putting that dude’s face on it.
I’ll bite, since I’m not Canadian. What would you rather have in place of the King?
Terry Fox, Red Green, Bob & Doug, an angry goose, literally anybody other than that guy.
Tommy Douglas
colin mochrie’s big bald head searing the vision from your eyes as you turn the coin over
Dave Foley plz
Heck, I’d even prefer having Deadpool on our currency to King Chuckles.
that dude
Never met the guy, but do tell what you know from your friendship.
‘literally’
Oh, wait. No, nevermind.
Scott Thompson as Elizabeth II
Perfection
Beaver!
I vote that we choose a mascot animal and use that, like Athens did with their tetradrachma for centuries.
Trudeau pleass usurp the Britsh Monarch so we can have your handsome face on our coins thanks.
trudeau
I would have been more amused if they had “mined” the gold from old tailings piles (the ones around Kirkland Lake used to have enough gold still in them to make that feasible, although I don’t know whether that’s the case anymore), or at least some mine with an associated settlement, rather than one located way out in the wilderness.
I don’t understand the point of making a coin that has ~$3500 worth of gold in it, and then giving it an official face value of $50.
Goldbugs have a lot of nostalgia for the Gilded Age, so they put the face value it where it would have been in 1896.
