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It’s worth about thirty six real dollars so I bought a couple pizzas with it.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 53 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 34 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Better yet, that’s not the coronation coin. This is the gold coin, 1 oz of gold. Worth over $5000 USD.

https://www.bullionmart.ca/product/2013-canada-1-oz-gold-maple-leaf-bu/

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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….

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why can't I find 5 grams laying on the floor...

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 3 points 3 weeks ago

Have you tried visiting a nursing home?

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, at least OP has 2 pizzas for the trouble.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

"Uh, sure, I'll give you two extra large pizzas for that..."

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

I'll take a ten and two twenties...

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago

It's the gold version.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 31 points 3 weeks ago

If it's real that's 1oz gold https://en.numista.com/69798

Worth over 4k USD.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

TIL there is a Canadian $50 coin.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The UK minted a £10,000 coin once

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How bout a tree fiddy coin

[–] eth0slash0@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

I ain't giving you no three fiddy you god damn Loch Ness Monster!

[–] King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That will only cost $300000. 99% depreciation immediately...

[–] King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I assume this is a joke...

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I hope so... However it would make good lemmy lore if it wasn't

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Congratulations dude, you just doxxed yourself. Now everyone knows you're in Canada.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just like my girlfriend.

You wouldn’t know her.

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Lives in Vancouver, sucks like a Hoover?

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

Wanted to experience real freedom.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'll give ya $60 for it. You know, for the novelty value.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That looks like a different coin.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It is. The one pictured is a gold coin, worth over $5000 USD.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you sure it isn't just a patina on a silver one?

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Just look at the text on the coin. It only matches the gold version.

[–] Curiousfur@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Forgot that the RoC call them that. 😅

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The Canadian Mint makes all is their commemorative coins and such with a denomination. For example this $2500 denomination gold 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 droping in value to far as they have an intrinsically assigned worth.

*Edit I suspect it's also so that faking them is counted as currency counterfeiting instead of as year mark or copyright infringment

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

How heavy was it? Did you get a picture of the other side? Where did you even find that?

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Of course a Brit would expect you to know how much your currency weighs. It's dollars not pounds ya muppet.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If it's 1oz.... That's gold

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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?

[–] DokPsy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's Canada. It's legal there