On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Ken Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Knarf - isn't a looney a $2.00 canadian bill ?
A looney is a $1 coin, so called because there's an image of a loon on one side (I can never remember which is obverse and which is reverse - the Queen's on one side and a loon the other; you figure out which is which). The $2 coin has a polar bear on it (and the Queen on 't'other side), but it's called a tooney. As in a two-dollar-looney. Aren't we clever? Our $1 bill went out of circulation maybe 20 years ago, the $2 bill maybe 10 years ago... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
