The Canadian 50c coin isn't actually in circulation

[Loser]

I love the attention to detail on the CAD, including not having a single cent coin. I'm guessing the 50 cent coin is in there to hold the space, but we don't actually use them they're usually sold by the mint as collectibles.

[Michael Daemon]

USD has a 50c coin too, I believe you can still spend them but I doubt many people ever do.

[RedKellBell]

We have 50c pieces in the US, but they're more "collectors" items than spending money. Same thing with the 1 dollar coins and 2 dollar bills. Some are superstitious enough to believe in a lucky 1 dollar coin or 2 dollar bill. Americans like myself collect Canadian pennies.

[Loser]

That's pretty interesting, I didn't know they weren't used that often since I see them a lot in media

[Lowkey]

Yep, it's a 50-cent coin, and if Kennedy is facing to the right, it's actually worth closer to $800.

[Trellek]

Originally posted by RedKellBell:

1 dollar coins and 2 dollar bills

Um... We're all aware that the US Mint still prints $1 coins and $2 bills, right? Like, they're not rare or anything—there's an estimated 1.5-billion bills in circulation, in fact, and while I can't find circulating numbers for $1 coins, the Fed apparently has over a billion in storage (to avoid flooding the market, as it were). If you don't see them in an area it's because nobody's getting them from the bank. Talk a local business into giving them as change though, and you will quickly grow tired of them.

Also, the US Mint began striking half-dollar coins again in 2021. Unless I'm wildly misreading the information on their website, they've struck some twenty-million half-dollar coins this year alone (and a couple-million $1 coins, presumably directly into the Fed's coffers).