Final Canadian penny gets stamped
For many Canadians, it’s a cause for celebration and, perhaps, a little bit of nostalgia. On Friday, May 4th, the Royal Canadian Mint in Winnipeg will produce the final Canadian penny, and commemorate...
View ArticleNight of the Bounty Hunter 2200
Loyal, possibly drunk, readers of Kudos and Kvetches may recall last spring we wrote about a particularly dark night of the soul where we contemplated buying our dad a metal detector for Father’s Day....
View ArticleCost to stamp the final penny? 5.6 million pennies
OTTAWA — A penny for your thoughts on the penny? More like 5.6 million of them. The federal government and Royal Canadian Mint spent around 5.6 million pennies ($56,000) to have Finance Minister Jim...
View ArticlePenny lives on… just a little bit longer
The penny lives on… for a little while longer. The federal government announced Monday the Royal Canadian Mint will continue to distribute the Canadian penny until February 4, 2013. Ottawa had...
View ArticleRare 1936 Canadian ‘dot cent’ set to sell at U.S. auction for pretty penny:...
Just weeks after the Canadian penny was pulled out of circulation, the single most famous one-cent coin ever produced in this country — an “exceedingly rare” and valuable 1936 “dot cent” stolen from a...
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