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Message:: [QUOTE="I Like Trees, post: 287233, member: 10463"]Why are Candain coins distributed this way in US? <img src="http://geocities.com/brianjacob2/invertbellcrv.GIF" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />Here is my thinking: People do not look at the copper coins they receive. You could give them amusement park tokens, and I dare to say, only one in twenty people would notice. This is why there are so many Canadian copper coins circulating in the States. (I was given a token in a roll of ¼'s I bought from my bank. It had been assembled by machine! I never managed to go back and tell them. I guess it makes up for the £1 coin I found in a car park in Scotland.) People look at white-metal coins, and will not accept CA$0,10 or $0,05. It has been my experience, having been around people when it happens, that people enjoy receiving a Canadian ¼'s. It is seen as a treat by some US citizens. I have never seen one here with a reverve othen than the ¼ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribou" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribou" rel="nofollow">Caribou</a>. Now that the reverse of the US ¼ has 45 versions (50 by August, 2008) I would even dare say there will be more Canadian ¼'s in circulation. Guy 1: What's this quarter with a moose on it?Guy 2: Uh, must be Maine's.G1: But who's this on the front?    G2: Washington in drag, I guess. (No offense intended to citizens of the commonwealth of nations.) ~ [/QUOTE]

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