Examples of modern gold collector / investor coins include the American Gold Eagle minted by the United States, the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf minted by Canada, and the Krugerrand, minted by South Africa.

The American Gold Eagle has a face value of US $ 50, and the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf coins also have nominal ( purely symbolic ) face values ( e. g., C $ 50 for 1 oz.

Sometimes non-monetized bullion coins such as the Canadian Maple Leaf and the American Gold Eagle are minted with nominal face values less than the value of the metal in them, but as such coins are never intended for circulation, these value numbers are not market but fiat values.

This huge success of the Krugerrand encouraged other gold-producing countries to mint and issue gold bullion coins of their own, including the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf in 1979, the Australian Nugget in 1981, the Chinese Gold Panda in 1982, the American Gold Eagle in 1986, and the British Britannia coin in 1987.

The Royal Canadian Mint still makes many silver coins with various dollar denominations.

The obverse, like all other current Canadian coins, has a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.

This is not a purely theoretical result but may instead be observed today in bullion coins such as the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf, the South African Krugerrand, the American Gold Eagle, or even the silver Maria Theresa thaler ( Austria ).

In the late 1970s, the Hunt brothers attempted to corner the worldwide silver market but failed, temporarily driving the price far above its historic levels and intensifying the extraction of silver coins from circulation .< REF NAME =" TEXAS "> The same process occurs today with the copper content of coins such as the pre-1997 Canadian penny, the pre-1982 United States penny and the pre-1992 UK copper pennies and two pence.

He was inducted into Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame ( 2005 ) and Commemorated on Royal Canadian Mint silver and gold coins for his spacewalk to install Canadarm2 on the International Space Station ( 2001 ).

" The photo won a National Newspaper Award and has been reproduced by the Royal Canadian Mint on coins.

Canadian dollars, especially coins, are accepted by some businesses in the northernmost cities of the United States and in many Canadian snowbird enclaves, just as US dollars are accepted by some Canadian businesses.

The purest mass-produced bullion coins are in the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf series, which go up to 99. 999 % purity.

( Other British coins, such as the 5p and the 10p, also are fairly close to U. S. and Canadian coins -- the dime and quarter respectively -- but are close enough in monetary value that the discrepancy is not as much of an issue.

Canadian coins, for example, were minted well into 1948 stamped " 1947 ", the new year's issue indicated by a small maple leaf in one corner.

As well as producing silver and base metal coins for everyday use, the new Canadian mint also turned the recently discovered gold into sovereigns striking intermittently between 1908 and 1919.

Like the Australian and Canadian mints, this was set up to turn locally mined gold into coins.

This can cause some issues due to the fact that Canadian coins, which are identical in size and shape to their American counterparts, generally circulate alongside U. S. currency in the northern United States and in small sums are usually accepted at par ( the discrepancy between the two currencies is small enough to be neglected ), but cannot be accepted in many vending machines due to a different metallic composition.

( To a certain extent, this issue also affects Caribbean coinage, countries whose currencies are pegged to the U. S. dollar, and the British 5p, 10p, and 50p, all of which are similar in size and value to the U. S. and Canadian dime, quarter and dollar coins ; the Atlantic Ocean generally minimizes the cross-circulation of these coins.

Canadian 1-and 2-dollar bills remain legal tender even if they have been withdrawn and replaced by coins, but Canadian $ 1000 bills remain legal tender even if they are removed from circulation as they arrive at a bank.

No such invitation was extended by any camp to the newly minted Canadian Alliance leader and future Tory leader Stephen Harper.

Rising nickel prices eventually caused another switch to cupronickel in 1982 ( an alloy similar to the U. S. nickel ), but more recently, Canadian nickels are minted in nickel-plated steel, containing a small amount of copper.

With the exception of some 1968 dimes struck at the Philadelphia Mint, all Canadian coins since 1908 have been minted in Canada.

Szilva ultimately chose the 1951 Canadian nickel, minted by the Canadian Mint in 1951, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the isolation of nickel as a metal, to show where Sudbury ’ s wealth came from, and to be a lasting tribute to the men and women who mined and processed the minerals in the Sudbury Basin.

The 1947 Maple Leaf refers to a set of Canadian coins dated 1947 which bear a tiny maple leaf following the date to denote that they were actually minted in 1948.

The British and Canadian Liaison Officers, as well as Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, the American Red Cross, and similar interested organizations were informed from time to time as training aids were developed.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

`` Are you a poor dumb Canadian or a smart aleck from the States ''??

Anthropologists were recruited from England and the USA, setting the foundation for the unique Canadian style of anthropology.

Canadian syllabics differ from other abugidas in that the vowel is indicated by rotation of the consonantal symbol, with each vowel having a consistent orientation.

* 1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.

He, like many Canadian farmers of the era, conceived of farmers as a distinct social class in the midst of a class struggle against capitalists who owned the banks, railways, and grain trading companies which profited from the efforts of farmers.

In 2006, the deviation from the national average was the largest for any province in Canadian history.

Alberta is landlocked, and separated by a series of mountain ranges from the nearest outlets to the Pacific Ocean, and by the Canadian Shield from ports on the Lakehead or Hudson Bay.

Australian English likewise blends American and British alongside native usages, but retains a significantly higher degree of distinctiveness from both of the larger varieties than does Canadian English, particularly in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary.

In Canada, where the Act of Settlement is now a part of Canadian constitutional law, Tony O ' Donohue, a Canadian civic politician, took issue with the provisions that exclude Roman Catholics from the throne, and which make the monarch of Canada the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, requiring him or her to be an Anglican.

Norman Spector called, in The Globe and Mail, for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to address the issue of the act's bar on Catholics, saying that Phillips ' marriage to Kelly would be the first time the provisions of the act would bear directly on Canada – Phillips would be barred from acceding to the Canadian throne because he married a Roman Catholic Canadian.

While the British foreign affairs were in favour of support of the Canadian argument, the event resulted in what was thought of as a betrayal, leading to alienation of the British from the new nation of Canada.

* The Boomers ( band ), a Canadian rock band hailing from Ontario

The other judges were John Toohey QC, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia who had worked on Aboriginal issues ( he replaced New Zealander Sir Edward Somers QC, who retired from the Inquiry in 2000 for personal reasons ), and Mr Justice William Hoyt QC, former Chief Justice of New Brunswick and a member of the Canadian Judicial Council.

Meanwhile co-operation on many fronts, such as the ease of the flow of goods, services, and people across borders are to be even more extended, as well as the establishment of joint border inspection agencies, relocation of U. S. food inspectors agents to Canadian plants and vice versa, greater sharing of intelligence, and harmonizing regulations on everything from food to manufactured goods, thus further increasing the American-Canadian assemblage.

In April 1994 the Pacific Fisheries Management Council unanimously approved the strictest regulations in 18 years, banning all commercial salmon fishing for that year from Cape Falcon north to the Canadian border.

They may wish to take advantage of a spike in demand for a particular coin ( for example, during the annual release of Canadian numismatic collectibles from the Royal Canadian Mint ).

Proponents argued that the name Dominion Day was a holdover from the colonial era, an argument given some impetus by the patriation of the Canadian Constitution in 1982, and others asserted that an alternative was needed as the term does not translate well into French.

In 1976, jurisdiction over telecommunications services, most of which were then delivered by monopoly common carriers ( for example, telephone companies ), was transferred to it from the Canadian Transport Commission although the abbreviation CRTC remained the same.

The CRTC argues that allowing free trade in television stations would overwhelm the smaller Canadian market, preventing it from upholding its responsibility to foster a national conversation.