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Original Title: TIL Canada’s $1 coin is commonly called the “loonie” because it has a loon on the reverse. When a $2 coin was introduced, depicting a polar bear, an MP proposed it be called “Nanuq”, Inuit for polar bear, but he was ignored because the public instead preferred to call it the “toonie” (2-oonie).
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…the public instead preferred to call it the “toonie” (2-oonie).
So that’d make the $1 version also work with “L” for “Lone” (instead of 2).
