Lucky Loonies
RedTiger
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A cool story about the 2002 Olympic loonies.
from
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/Lifestyle/2006/01/19/1400977-sun.html
You may at this very moment have a piece of the Olympic dream in your pocket.
The Royal Canadian mint released its 2006 Lucky Loonie yesterday, and gave each member of the Olympic and Paralympic team one as a good luck charm.
The Lucky Loonie legend was born when Canadian icemaker Trent Evens buried a dollar coin at centre ice to bring the men's and women's hockey teams good luck at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. They both struck gold.
Consider yourself fortunate if you do discover one of the 10 million 2006 coins in a handful of spare change.
"Like any new coin it won't circulate well, as the first person who gets it will take it out and keep it," says Brian Grant Duff of All Nations Stamp & Coin at the Bay.
If luck isn't on your side, the coins are available at RBC branches or Duff will sell you one - at a face value of $4.
from
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/Lifestyle/2006/01/19/1400977-sun.html
You may at this very moment have a piece of the Olympic dream in your pocket.
The Royal Canadian mint released its 2006 Lucky Loonie yesterday, and gave each member of the Olympic and Paralympic team one as a good luck charm.
The Lucky Loonie legend was born when Canadian icemaker Trent Evens buried a dollar coin at centre ice to bring the men's and women's hockey teams good luck at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. They both struck gold.
Consider yourself fortunate if you do discover one of the 10 million 2006 coins in a handful of spare change.
"Like any new coin it won't circulate well, as the first person who gets it will take it out and keep it," says Brian Grant Duff of All Nations Stamp & Coin at the Bay.
If luck isn't on your side, the coins are available at RBC branches or Duff will sell you one - at a face value of $4.
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