another bonus fact! CDN money has an embedded hologram that will project the denomination when a laser pointer is shone through it. great party trick.
uh, before i lick this, how does it glow?
strontium aluminate.
Bonus! the Canadian mint actually mints coins for other countries. All euro coins for example.
I couldn’t find anything on that, do you have a source for the Canadian Mint making “all euro coins” and what that is intended to mean?
when EU went to the Euro, coins were secretly minted in Canada for a few EU countries and shipped out on secret cargo ships.
This reminds me that ths US Defense Department issued a warning about the painted quarters because they thought it was spying tech.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alleged-canadian-spy-coin-deemed-harmless/
The odd-looking — but harmless — “poppy coin” was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as “anomalous” and “filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology,” according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP.
“filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology
or, paint.
I have so many of these. I mentioned to my boyfriend at the time that I thought they were neat. He swapped out every toonie in the till like this and gave them to me for months while they were in circulation.
I have been giving them out as souvenirs when I visit other countries, but maybe I should actually count how many I have and retire early.
Colorful money, seems like this is our final positive claim to fame xD
How much cancer will it give me? Still cool though
it’s just strontium aluminate.
