Happy 30 Years Loonie! I Mean... One Dollar Loon Coin

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Coinsplus Valued Member Canada 430 Posts	Posted 06/13/2017 11:47 pm Great little article by the National Post about the history of the Loon coin, and it's 30 year anniversary. I did not realize that Robert Ralph Carmichael's design was supposed to be for a gold coin, but got rejected. On another note...when reading the article, I think I'll be washing my loonies. http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/ne...loonie-at-30 Edited by Coinsplus 06/14/2017 12:04 am Report this Post to the Staff

johnnysprawl Pillar of the Community Canada 1618 Posts	Posted 06/14/2017 12:19 am Cool article, thanks for sharing! Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10456 Posts	Posted 06/14/2017 12:49 am There is a two coin set, struck in silver, celebrating this at the Royal Canadian Mint, the voyageur dollar shaped and sized like a look, is cool: http://www.mint.ca/store/coins/1-pu...-prod2980025 "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
n9jig Pillar of the Community United States 997 Posts	Posted 06/14/2017 1:43 pm I am sorry but I feel dumber for having read this article. I can only hope it is a parody... Some of the remarks are just plain silly. Sure there are more coins minted than there were bills in circulation, but a good chunk of that is due to population growth, inflation and the greater usability of the coins vs. the dollar bills. Waitresses having to lift weights? Strippers getting hurt with coins tossed at them? If you were a decent stripper they wouldn't be spending coins on you in the first place. About the only part of the article that made any sense was the very last one about the erosion of the purchasing power of the dollar itself. What it doesn't say is the RELATIVE purchasing power of the consumer. People are making more money and things are more expensive. If you compare relative purchasing power now to 30 years ago it is the same or even greater, it just takes more dollars to do it. Edited by n9jig 06/14/2017 1:46 pm Report this Post to the Staff
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