🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4iaedj$q9a@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com>,
Ken Leonard <ken@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> wrote:
>DaveHatunen (hatunen@netcom.com) wrote:

[...]

>: Hell, when I lived in Canada a Canadian $2 bill was worth more than an
>: American $2 bill.
>
>Of course, Canada has had the Loon Dollar coin and the $2 paper bill is 
>the low denomintion. That is exactly what the US was trying with the 
>failed Susan B. Anthony Dollar.
>
>To say that the Canadian $2 bill was ever worth more than the US $2 bill 
>is ludicrous. The Canadian Dollar has always been worth less than the US 
>dollar to the best of my knowledge.

Then your knowledge only goes back a couple of decades at best. In the
late 1950s and 1960s the Canadian dollar was worth about US $1.04-1.08,
a fact that my Canadian friends used to mention to me from time to
time, along with references to the quality of American beer.

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