The current brass $1 coin has a picture of a loon, an aquatic bird common in Canada.
Older $1 silver coins carry a picture of a voyageur (fur trapper) rowing a canoe. That animal, of course, is a human male.
beaver beaver
For modern CIRCULATING coins there are:
The Loon, on the dollar coin
The Carribou, on the quarter
The Beaver, on the Nickel
The PolarBear on the Twoonie
There are a $hit load of them in Canada that's why!
A polar bear
The Canadian Quarter Sports a Carabou.
The beaver
moose
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Beaver
the big nickel is about 64,607,747 times the size of a Canadian nickel
because it is a Canadian symdol
If it is a US nickel, it is 25% nickel, 75% copper. If it is a Canadian nickel I believe it is 100% nickel.
how much does canadian nickel 1751-1951 is worth
A nickel is an American or Canadian coin which is worth 5 cents.
A composition of steel, copper, and nickel
that is not clear
Not what, but WHO - a portrait of Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the United States, appears on the front of the US nickel. Check out the U.S. Mint website www.usmint.gov for information about other coins.
Canadian money does not actually have a nickel. They have what is called a five cent piece. A 2002 Canadian 5¢ piece is only worth face value.
Up till the 1990s Canadian dimes were made of pure nickel. Since then they've been made of steel because the price of nickel went up.
4.6 mm
A beaver is on the nickel because it is a Canadian symbol, and it was important to the early economy.