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Around six years ago, not long after Canada replaced its green Queen's one-dollar note with an eleven-sided gold-coloured coin, a schoolyard ditty made the rounds:
Once the design was released, the name bruin was suggested by many people, but the name that appears to be winning is doubloonie, combining the double loonie with a reference to a traditional coin said to be favoured by pirates—again, a not-too-subtle satirical reference to the appetite for taxation of most governments.
The name of the small silver threepenny coin, known as the threepenny joey or just joey, had the origin in another small coin, a fourpenny piece or groat.
The Mint, as usual, is no help—they refer to the new coin unimaginatively as the two-dollar coin, so the letters columns of every newspaper in the country have been filled with speculation and suggestions for a slang term for this new coin, which is slightly larger than the loonie, gold-coloured and polygonal (like the loonie), but with a silver centre with a polar bear pictured on it.
In other words, Jimmy Carter's commission was half right, which is about par for the course when it comes to predicting the future (to test this proposition, flip a coin several times).