Hey, check out our new nickel!

[tuvor]

http://www.mint.ca/ve/home.asp

[whistle]

1. Very nice, do you still cast it with nickle

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Kewl !!!

:smoke:

[Hand]

3. I want one of THESE!

Spitfire half dollar! How cool is that? Too bad it's not a general circulation coin...

[V. Kid]

5. Cool...

...I'd want to go the RCM and get one.

[iverglas]

4. about the pic

Articles in Saturday's Globe, if anyone's interested and missed them:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050430/EDCOL30/TPComment/Columnists

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050430.wveott0430/BNStory/specialVEDay/

The people on the car were students at an Ottawa high school and young workers from the surrounding offices. The young woman about to jump on the running board is the sister of the woman kneeling on the wheel, who didn't even know she was there when the picture was taken.

It's just always fascinating to see, and think about, people now old being that young -- and cute. There were pics in the print edition of what some of them look like now, and you just know they'd never have guessed.

(I should know about all that ... I've still got the sepia photo-poster of me & my 18 or so hippie housemates taken on the grounds of our rented mansion back in 1971 ... but damned if *I* don't still look almost exactly the same!)

And of course the flip side -- like the few photos we have of my uncle who was killed in WWI, who never looked any older at all.

[V. Kid]

6. I really like those old nickles.

I think they did a pretty faithful representation of it.

Quite respectful.