Toonies

[zandperl]

Today I picked up three $2-bills. I saw them in the lunch lady's cash drawer Friday but didn't have any spare money on me. I'd forgotten them by lunch today but when I saw them again and realized I had the spare cash I traded them in. When I started examining them I saw that they were printed in 2003, immediately prompting me to suspect they

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[spazzy444]

Canada also uses a $2 coin, the Two-ney

[zandperl]

As asked below, do you have 2¢ coins?

I also know that the Euro goes in patterns of 1-2-5: 1c, 2c, 5c, 10c, 20c, 50c, 1$, 2$, 5$, etc. Does Canada do that too? That pattern is actually logarithmic (multiplicative, each one is approximately double the one before it) so I like it. :)

[spazzy444]

no $.02 coins, just $2 coins.
The remainder of their currency is the same as the US (other than their $1 as coin), so it doesn't follow the Euro pattern. That is quite neat though.

[zandperl]

The remainder of their currency

Oh duh, sorry mixed you up with calezephyr77 who lives in CA I think... :-P Unless I'm entirely cornfuzzled....

[spazzy444]

No worries, I carry dual citizenship
;o)~