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verrius t1_iszf9m4 wrote

Reply to comment by stevethered in TIL that in an effort to save $43.5, the Canadian Mint mailed the dies of the new $1 coin via a discount courier over using an armored car- which were promptly stolen and have never been found. This would lead to the adoption of the Loonie design as an emergency replacement. by Padgriffin

I get what you're saying...its also a problem to be close to the size/weight of any US coin. But even in the US, the Susan B. Anthony itself was a problem; some vending machines would register it as a quarter, and it became a problem in in-person transactions both ways, with some people not even realizing the Anthony was a dollar coin (similar to the problems some people have spending $2 bills), and other people mistakenly giving it out instead of quarters. So Canada was trying to match the design (bad on its own) of a poorly made design (compounding the problem). There's a reason they only ever bothered minting the Susan B. Anthony for 4 years, and eventually replaced it with the Sacagawea dollar.

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