Remember the Canadian "Spy coin" story?

[hobbit709]

Her's an update on this BS
http://www.thestar.com/article/211189

U.S. feared poppy quarter
STEVE WHITE/CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO
The poppy quarter, billed as the world’s first coloured coin, was introduced in 2004.


AP Video: 'Spy coins'
May 07, 2007 08:56 AM
TED BRIDIS
Associated Press

WASHINGTON – An odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind the U.S. Defence Department's false espionage warning earlier this year, the Associated Press has learned.

The odd-looking – but harmless – "poppy coin" was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as "anomalous" and "filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology," according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP.

The silver-coloured 25-cent piece features the red image of a poppy – Canada's flower of remembrance – inlaid over a maple leaf. The unorthodox quarter is identical to the coins pictured and described as suspicious in the contractors' accounts.

The supposed nano-technology actually was a conventional protective coating the Royal Canadian Mint applied to prevent the poppy's red color from rubbing off. The mint produced nearly 30 million such quarters in 2004 commemorating Canada's 117,000 war dead.

[havocmom]

1. Is all the worry about a coin from Canada the reason somebody was distracted

enough to loose a hard drive with data on 100,000 TSA employees?

Priorities need tuning up in American security.

[MrPrax]

2. Canada does have 'spy coins'!!!

It's just the level of technology in Canada hasn't advanced past the 'million' dollar denomination.



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Oh, Canada ... Oh, Snap!

[roamer65]

3. I've got a poppy quarter in my Canadian collection.

OMG...They're listening to everything I say.:silly: :crazy:

The Canadians must have laughing their butts off at these paranoid "morans". Heck, if I were over there near these contractor twits I would have been purposely feeding their paranoia just for fun.

I think Michael Moore is right. "Stupid white men".

[Captain Angry]

4. I keep my poppy quarter on the TV in a clear sleeve.

When Canadian friends come over to watch the game with me, it's there as a little reminder of home for them.

I just added the Olympic Hockey and Curling quarters to my TV collection.

All of my other foreign currency is in a box, but these quarters are out for all to see.

[Lisa]

5. if we were that advanced, we could have put a mammogram option ...

... on the "Breast Cancer Awareness" quarter. Now that would have been cooler than the pink ribbon design! (Just hold coin up to cleavage and press button for instant mammogram ...)