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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Here are a couple of medallions I'll bet I would have no problem spending as 25c coins anywhere: Starbucks  Tim Horton, Canadian Tire... These medallions are the same size & specs as Canadian quarters. They were made by the Royal Canadian Mint as part of special sets. The $20 for $20 discussion got me thinking. When talking about coins, is "money" just whatever people are familiar with?   |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I have received the Canada Post Token in my change.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Money that people are comfortable with imo; bank notes, twonies, loonies, quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies. Everything else raises some kind of red flag... If it looks and acts like the standard coins above, people will take it without looking closely. US coins are a great example of that. I seem to get a fair number of US State Quarters in my change. |
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United States
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Yep, Canadian Tire money... in a recent post in another thread some merchant preferred it instead of a Visa. That's pretty far out.
BTW, does Canadian Tire still issue their money?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Yes Canadian Tire money is probably the most recognized and widely spread loyalty program in Canada. They also did some coins. There is a whole ebay section devoted to Canadian Tire notes. * Coins & Paper Money > * Paper Money: World > * North & Central America > * Canada > * Canadian Tire Money |
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
693 Posts |
What Ugly says I think is true. If it looks like common change people don't really notice. I've been getting US quarters in change & I live no-where near the border.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
693 Posts |
Interesting that Canadian-Banknotes received one of the tokens in change. Years ago I bought a Nestles 1999 token in AU condition (for a few bucks). The token was issued in a limited number of millennium sets. A hard to-find "quarter" that someone found in change.
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Canada
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One of my local liquor stores takes Canadian Tire money.
I've never seen the medallion in change.
I've received and spent an Australian dollar as a loonie though.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I pulled a colourised proof Australian Dollar from circulation about a year ago. This is really NCLT in circulation.
I suppose that the most common instance of circulating non legal tender is a coin which is circulating in a country other than the one that it was supposed to be circulating in.
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02/28/2011 08:36 am
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Australia does have a similar example of "CNLT" we sometimes still find in change (though I've never received one personally). In Australia in 1964, Taylor & Challen, maker of large coin and medal presses, struck little gilt-coloured medallions for giving away at their display at the British Exhibition held in Sydney in that year. The mintage was 1 million, a huge number for a souvenir medallion. There must be a lot of them sitting around drawers and "odd coin" jars throughout the country. Though the kangaroo was similar to the one appearing on the penny and halfpenny, at the time Australia issued no brass or yellow-coloured coinage, so it was impossible to confuse these medals with circulation coins. Example of the medal on ebay Australia. Fast forward 24 years, and Australia issues a new $2 coin. It's small and brassy-yellow in colour - physically very similar to the Taylor & Challen medal in size, though the $2 coin is thicker. Suddenly, Taylor & Challen medals were popping into circulation all over the place, being mistaken for $2 coins by a populace not yet used to them. The RAM had the excuse that the Taylor & Challen medals were not issued by the RAM, and were made a generation previously. The goofball at the RCM that approved the design and issue of the tokens in the OP has no such excuse. What were they thinking, not only making "tokens" the same size and specs as a quarter, but giving them away in mint sets?  Of course, the other major category of "CNLT" is counterfeit coins. Any high-face-value coin is susceptible to counterfeiting these days. British 1 pound coins and Australian $2 coins are both notorious for being easily counterfeited. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Canada
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The american $1 coins circulate up here (toronto) all the time as loonies. It helps that they're both $1 coins, I suppose.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The american $1 coins circulate up here That's odd - I've never seen the US dollar coins in circulation where I am. Have you received any Presidential dollars or just Sac dollars? |
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Canada
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That's a good story by Sap, I mean to think a generation later.....
I've picked the "Yankee Loonie" out of my change a few times as well.
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Canada
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Got a few Polk dollars lately...
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Rest in Peace
United States
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We get loonies in brass buck rolls. Didn't happen with sbas. Quote:
British 1 pound coins and Australian $2 coins are both notorious for being easily counterfeited.British 1 pound coins and Australian $2 coins are both notorious for being easily counterfeited. I read where some huge amount of GBP in circulation are fake. 20% or something ridiculous. Other CNLT would be hard times and CWT. In fact, patriotics were a profit center. Stores would pay $8 a thousand and hand them out as change. We used to get Canadian quarters when they were 80% of USD. Spent a few thousand dollars worth over the years. |
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Valued Member
Canada
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I've never pulled a sac dollar from change here in Toronto, but I've picked a few up at Casino Niagara just for kicks. My sister's found one in change in Ottawa though
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