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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • The Canadian Mint makes all is their commemorative coins and such with a denomination. For example this $2500 denomination gold coin. https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2026/the-jack-pine-by-tom-thomson-1-kilo-pure-gold-coin

    So there are non-circulation coins of all sorts of is values. Mostly they are worth more than face value as collected items. But sometimes they are worth more as their face value or as scrap metal. I had some $20 Silver coins that I took great delight in spending as my friend got them for $16.

    I think they do it so that they cannot legally be melted down for materials. As defacing currency is illegal. It also prevents them from droping in value to far as they have an intrinsically assigned worth.

    *Edit I suspect it’s also so that faking them is counted as currency counterfeiting instead of as year mark or copyright infringment








  • Yeah, 100%. The false dichotomy and the first past the post system really hurts us. Sadly getting that changed is something people don’t focus on enough. We were “supposed to” have electoral reforms under the prior liberal leadership, but everyone forgot to bring it up ever again.

    But saying they are “the same” really pushes that they are both “equally acceptable”. Which I feel undermines the system even further. We need to emphasize the better then push them away from the worse. Right now they ratchet to worse because voters move with the “center” which is a sliding scale. As long as people feel they are equally “bad” then there isn’t a big push to change things the same way as if they go “they both suck here is why one sucks more and let’s push the better one to be better in areas they suck in” or "let’s vote what we believe and stop being “stratigic” which would show parties where they actually should move to