QUOTE(Art @ May 6 2006, 01:14 PM)
In looking at your Canadian dollars, I realize that they switched the date from the Obv (portrait side) of the coin to the reverse. Do you know what year they actually made that change?
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Good question, didn't notice that.<br>
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I have checked my album and came up with the following:<br>
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<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr><td width=50><b>year</td><td width=150><b>subject</td><td width=125><b>date location</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>1989</td><td>Loon</td><td>reverse</td></tr>
<tr><td>1992</td><td>Parliament</td><td>obverse</td></tr>
<tr><td>1994</td><td>War memorial</td><td>obverse</td></tr>
<tr><td>1995</td><td>Loon</td><td>reverse</td></tr>
<tr><td>1995</td><td>Peacekeeping Memorial</td><td>obverse</td></tr>
<tr><td>1997</td><td>10th dollar loon</td><td>reverse</td><td>I am still missing this one....</td></tr>
<tr><td>2004</td><td>Loon</td><td>reverse</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>2004</td><td>Lucky Loony</td><td>reverse</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>2005</td><td>Terry Fox</td><td>obverse</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>2006</td><td>Lucky Loony</td><td>reverse</td><td></td></tr>
</table>
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So, on the normal circulation coins, they're on the reverse, on the commems it varies.<br>
Can't find a "system"