Showing posts with label toonie. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Giant Royal Bare Behinds

For some reason Canada likes to have giant statues of local things, things such as apples in Ontario's apple country, a cowboy in Alberta (predictably), the town of Dildo in Newfoundland has a whale, (disappointingly (and don't google that one on a shared computer)) Mattice in Northern Ontario has a voyageur (historically), and Campbellford has a Toonie.  A toonie is a $2 coin and Campbellford has a giant one because  Brent Townsend, the artist who designed it lives in the town.


Did you know that Canada is the only place where the Queen has a bare behind??


The Queen is on the front of the coin and a polar bear is on the obverse.