Gold coin at boat launch?

[mchamby]

I was getting my canoe out of my Jeep and looked down as I lifted it out and here is this round shiney coin sitting there. I picked it up and it looks to be gold with a silver casing around it. I went on e-bay and found one just like it but the one on e-bay has writing on the gold coin and mine has none. It is elizabeth the II 1996 with the polar bear on the back and on the silver back Canada 2 dollars. Please tell me what I found if you can and if it has any value? Thanks for your help and sorry I can't send you a pic other than the e-bay site I found.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3382&item=8314469107&rd=1

 

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[omnicognic]

It's a toonie! (I just recently learned what exactly a "toonie" was! lol)
This particular coin is common to have errors, check this page and see if it does, it could be valuable!

http://www.coinscan.com/err/prefab.html

Great find! omnicognic 8)

 

[mchamby]

Thanks a lot, thats exactly what it looks like. Not the kind of gold I was hoping for but it's a good start. A little gold is better than no gold.
Mchamby

 

[Siegfried Schlagrule]

since the one dollar coins have a loon on them they call their $1 and $2 coins - loonies and toonies. That's a fact not a joke. exanimo, ss

 

[stoney56]

Does that mean tha when they put Prince Charles on one, they will call it an ear-ie?

 

[gord]

Probably not, we're not quite that insensitive. However, when the toonie came out it was known as 'the queen, with her bear behind'.