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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...

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Night 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....

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Cost 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...

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Penny 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...

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Rare 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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