Another Foonie

Here in Australia, the RAM got ready to start making circulating $5 coins in the mid-1990s. We went for polymer notes instead. Now that Canada's gone polymer too, I'd assume they too will stick with polymer notes rather than switch to coins.

As for the deign, it looks good and it might be nice for the quasquicentennial of the old gold coins or something, but it wouldn't pass muster for a regular circulating design. That coat of arms is now obsolete and the provinces not represented on it would all kick up a stink.

I still say it should be a golden ring around a silver center, so as to be opposite of the toonie, which is, of course, a silver ring around a golden center. The "golden ring aound a silver center" was what the Canadian government was proposing, last time I heard of them talking of introducing foonies to replace the $5 bill.