https://piefed.world/u/SatansMaggotyCumFart posted on Mar 5, 2026 21:55
It’s worth about thirty six real dollars so I bought a couple pizzas with it.
It’s worth about thirty six real dollars so I bought a couple pizzas with it.
How heavy was it? Did you get a picture of the other side?
I assume this is a joke…
I hope so…
I’ll give ya $60 for it.
Congratulations dude, you just doxxed yourself. Now everyone knows you’re in Canada.
Of course a Brit would expect you to know how much your currency weighs. It’s dollars not pounds ya muppet.
If it’s 1oz…. That’s gold
TIL there is a Canadian $50 coin.
The 2013 $50 Queen’s Coronation coin is 5 ounces of 99.99% silver. And since silver is around 80–90 USD per ounce recently, the metal value alone would be on the order of a few hundred U.S. dollars, plus any collector premium.
Tl;Dr - it’s worth more than $50
The UK minted a £10,000 coin once
How bout a trillion-dollar coin?
That looks like a different coin.
Wanted to experience real freedom.
How bout a tree fiddy coin
If it’s real that’s 1oz gold https://en.numista.com/69798
Worth over 4k USD.
That’s not the coronation coin. This is the gold coin, 1 oz of gold. Worth over $5000 USD.
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/f826fee7-29cb-415a-9bca-a4384639afde.png
https://www.bullionmart.ca/product/2013-canada-1-oz-gold-maple-leaf-bu/
It is. The one pictured is a gold coin, worth over $5000 USD.
It’s the gold version.
It might be 2026 but we can’t all go walking around with an oz on us all the time. The scales of justice ain’t that light you know what I’m sayin?
It’s Canada. It’s legal there
Are you sure it isn’t just a patina on a silver one?
Just look at the text on the coin. It only matches the gold version.
I guess I assumed a person would not be carrying around $5k in a coin and figured it was the silver one.
Damn, why can’t I find 5 grand laying on the ground….
I bought a few games on humble bundle with the Bitcoin I mined with an old laptop… Those are now probably the most expensive games I’ve ever bought, and I don’t know if I ever played any of them. At least the people who bought pizzas early on got something to eat.
QE-toonie.
Just like my girlfriend.
You wouldn’t know her.
Why can’t I find 5 grams laying on the floor…
Lives in Vancouver, sucks like a Hoover?
I’ll take a ten and two twenties…
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/60b35351-14e7-4223-8627-48da3d57fef8.jpeg
Those were important though. They showed that there was an actual use-case for the coins. These days they seem completely worthless because all people do is horde them. I have no idea why there’s any value in crypto since it doesn’t seem like you can actually buy anything with it.
Well, at least OP has 2 pizzas for the trouble.
In the show, How I Met Your Mother, Barney Stinson wins a $50 bet against Marshall that he could run the New York marathon without training.
When he receives the $50 bill he makes a remark on the lines of “They don’t make this in a coin yet?”
I always thought it was a jab on him being rich
But now that I know there’s a $50 coin in Canada. It seems like he is raging on the US for not keeping up with Canada without knowing. Barney rags on Canada often because Robin is from Canada and he portrays “a true US patriot”.
Interesting
You mean a twonie.
The Canadian Mint makes all is their commemorative coins and such with a denomination. For example this $2500 denomination good coin. https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2026/the-jack-pine-by-tom-thomson-1-kilo-pure-gold-coin
So there are non-circulation coins of all sorts of is values. Mostly they are worth more than face value as collected items. But sometimes they are worth more as their face value or as scrap metal. I had some $20 Silver coins that I took great delight in spending as my friend got them for $16.
I think they do it so that they cannot legally be melted down for materials. As defacing currency is illegal. It also prevents them from doing in value to far as they have an intrinsically assigned worth.
https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2026/the-jack-pine-by-tom-thomson-1-kilo-pure-gold-coin Here is a Canadian $2500 coin.
Forgot that the RoC call them that. 😅
I ain’t giving you no three fiddy you god damn Loch Ness Monster!
That will only cost $300000. 99% depreciation immediately…
For face value yes. They are only given denominations so they count as currency for legislative purposes. They are almost never used at face value but for material or collector value.
