
Canadian Tire launches $1 coin
Canadian Tire is adding a $1 coin to the famous multicoloured bills considered by many as the country’s unofficial second currency.Canadian Tire Corp. announced Wednesday it will begin offering the new addition this weekend for a time-limited period. Customers will get the coin if they spend $25 or more.
Canadian Tire money, which debuted in 1958, can be used like cash at the retailer’s stores and gas bars. It was previously available in denominations between five cents and $2, all stamped with the grinning image of Sandy McTire, the company’s tam-o’-shanter bedecked and mustachioed fictional character.
The $1 coin will be manufactured at the Royal Canadian Mint, just like its official cousins, the loonie and the toonie.
Sure the Mint may do it, but judging by the colour of the mintage, it looks like it would be a coin produced at the Winnipeg, MB Mint operations, and not the Ottawa, ON operations, which are the ones responsible for the loonie and toonie.
Actually rob the coins that we use in circulation are made in the winnipeg mint. Coins that are made for collectors are made in the Ottawa Mint. Also the Royal Canadian Mint make coins for countries around the world, those coins are also made in the Ottawa Mint. So my guess would be that they would actually be made in the Ottawa Mint
