New icon for Camwyn

[avram]

The Royal Canadian Mint held a contest to create a design for a commemorative quarter for this year’s Canada Day (July 1st). Each year a new coin is designed, and one is given to each new citizen sworn in during Celebrate Canada Week (the week leading up to Canada Day). Here’s the winning design, by 11-year-old Nick Wooster, of Saanichton, BC. If you want one for your very own, try hunting around on the mint’s website, maybe you’ll have better luck finding the page than I had.

And while you’re there, check out these cool Canadian two-dollar coins. Almost as spiffy as the British two-pound coins.

(Via BoingBoing)

Comments

[ckd]

My favorite of the two pound coins is the 2003 DNA design.

Beats the US state quarters any day. My favorite quarter is still the 1976 US Bicentennial design...when they came out, I thought the drummer was a cowboy (I was somewhat younger then).

[stormsweeper.livejournal.com]

I've got a handful of Canadian coinage (none of the special issues, sorry) kicking around if you want a "Toonie" coin.

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

I don't get the image in the icon. Bullwinkle? Kilroy? Male genitalia?