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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Defiant7, post: 107314, member: 1895&quot;]Although they were refered to as &quot;Test Tokens&quot;, they were not tokens at all but real coins with a face value. Usually when the Canadian Mint changed the composition of their coins they would produce test tokens to see how they would turn out, these were actual tokens with no face value. But in 1999 when the mint was thinking of changing to the plated steal coins, the vending machine companies wanted to be able to test their machines with actual coins and not possible coins that may not be made, so in 1999 and 2000 the mint released test coins to the vending machine companies with the assumption they would be returned to the mint. However some of these coins did make it into circulation. So technically the official change over occured in 2001, it is not wrong to say the process began in 2000. In my opinion anyways.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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