I have some loonies and twonies (toonies?) that I need to exchange for some real money. Do I just take them to my local bank here in Ohio?
I have some loonies and twonies (toonies?) that I need to exchange for some real money. Do I just take them to my local bank here in Ohio?
Only Canadians would call their money loonies and toonies.
what's real money? isn't canadian dollars real money?
Guppy wrote:
Only Canadians would call their money loonies and toonies.
Yeah, he's one of us!
I was in Chicago this weekend. The vending machine in my hotel wouldn't even take American money. I tried bribing it with some Canadian money, but that didn't work either.
In Toronto yesterday, I put three American quarters from the weekend into a machine and it worked.
Your vending machines are discriminatory and protectionist.
um, go to a currency exchange?
What's with the US money? It's so boring. Green, Green, Green. No wonder it's fading on the international market.
http://www.advfn.com/currency-converter/us-to-canadian-dollar.html
thats it
Ha ha. My ex girlfriend is Canadian (St. Catherines) so I know what to call them. No, the loonies and twonies aren\'t from her. It\'s money I had left over after visiting her numerous times.
She gave me the American equivalent of a quarter and the center of the flower is painted red. She said that\'s the only Canadian coin with color in it.
Is that worth anything other than .25?
I will say though that Canadian women are sweethearts.
WAKE UP EVERYONE
ONE CANADIAN DOLLAR IS WORTH $1.01 IN AMERICAN CURRENCY, THUS THE CANADIAN DOLLAR IS WORTH MORE THAN THE AMERICAN DOLLAR.
It is true that, although banks and currency exchange places like Western Union will give you US dollars for foreign currency, the rates tend to be really poor. If you have any foreign currency, the best thing to do is hang onto it until the next time you visit its home country, and then either spend it or exchange it for US dollars before you come home.
But we're only talking about 5-10% difference in rate here, so for a few dollar and two-dollar coins you won't get ripped off too bad just exchanging them in the US.
the conversion as I understand it goes something is something like CAN $150 per oz, which goes for about $240 in the northern states.
$$$ wrote:She gave me the American equivalent of a quarter and the center of the flower is painted red. She said that's the only Canadian coin with color in it.
Is that worth anything other than .25?
The American equivalent of a quarter is a, uh, quarter in Canada.
A loonie is gold and a toonie is silver and gold.
That was a special quarter you got, and your government thought it was an attempt to spy on you:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/05/07/tech-poppy-quarter.htmlI've heard that if you're in Vancouver you can go to a bar and exchange it for some crappy beer.
That's so funny about the "spy coin'. One more example of how unfamiliar Americans are with distant foreign countries (as Britney would call them)