Posted in general on Mar 30th, 2012 Comments Off on End of the Penny; O’Canada Says Go
 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-to-scrap-the-penny-this-year/article2386120/ Death To Pennies Why Pennies are economically inefficient and should be abolished. The author is working on a follow-up to this video. Help him out here: http://blog.cgpgrey.com/work-in-progress/
Posted in general on Mar 30th, 2012 Comments Off on The streets are “paved with gold.”; Brinks crash spills millions in coins
oops. The crash also triggered a chain reaction, four other vehicles crumpled into each other. One of them, a truck full of candy. South Porcupine community services officer Const. Marc Depatie to CTV News. He said that passers-by have not been tempted to help themselves to a few extra dollars. ‘We are going to be […]
Posted in general on Sep 26th, 2011 Comments Off on Sinosauropteryx (2010)
coolest animated coin yet. 50-Cent Lenticular Coin
Posted in general on May 18th, 2010 Comments Off on Piles and piles…
Piles of paper money… papercraft money for printing. Canadian banknotes are the banknotes of Canada, denominated in Canadian dollars (CAD). In common everyday usage, they are called bills. Currently, they are issued in five, ten, twenty, fifty, and hundred dollar denominations. All current notes are issued by the Bank of Canada, which released its first […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 10th, 2007 Comments Off on Million Dollar Coin – Update
The most valuable coin ever offered in an online-only auction will be available in the Teletrade® Premier Plus auction #2409 on August 16, 2007. It will be the first auction of the world’s largest gold coin, a 100 kilogram $1 million (Canadian) denomination coin recently produced by the Royal Canadian Mint. “This is an exciting, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2007 Comments Off on MILLION-DOLLAR GOLD COIN
There have been at least a few takers for the massive new Royal Canadian Mint gold coin: “The Royal Canadian Mint has sold five of its $1-million gold collector coins, and at least four of them are headed where the money is – to the West Coast. ‘But as the mint and the dealers disclosed, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2007 Comments Off on Your Very Own Spy Coin!
Poppy quarter’ behind spy coin alert An odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind a U.S. Defense Department false espionage warning earlier this year about mysterious coin-like objects with radio frequency transmitters, The Associated Press has learned. The harmless “poppy coin” was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling […]
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