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  • 1 Dollar 2008, KM# 787, Canada, Elizabeth II, Lucky Loonie, Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics
  • 1 Dollar 2008, KM# 787, Canada, Elizabeth II, Lucky Loonie, Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics
Description

In what is now a legendary tale, a Loonie was embedded at centre ice prior to the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City to bring luck to Canada's men's and women's hockey teams. Both brought home gold. Since then, the Royal Canadian Mint has released a Lucky Loonie for every Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, and commonly known as Beijing 2008, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 8 to 24 August 2008 in Beijing, China. This was the first time that China had hosted the Summer Olympics, but the third time that the Games had been held in East Asia, following the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, and the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Obverse

Fourth portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II, when she was 77 years old, facing right and surrounded by the inscription. The logo for the Royal Canadian Mint below the Queen's effigy.

Dei Gratia Regina (often abbreviated to D. G. Regina and seen as D·G·REGINA) is a Latin title meaning By the Grace of God, Queen.

Engraver: Susanna Blunt

ELIZABETH II D·G·REGINA
SB

Reverse

Depicts a common loon in water, accompanied by the Canadian Olympic logo, country name, date and facial value below.

The TM/MC (trade-mark / marque de commerce) notice symbol appears designed to communicate claimed common law unregistered trademark rights to both English and French speaking consumers in a single treatment.

The common loon or great northern diver (Gavia immer) is a large member of the loon, or diver, family of birds. Breeding adults have a plumage that includes a broad black head and neck with a greenish, purplish, or bluish sheen, blackish or blackish-grey upperparts, and pure white underparts except for some black on the undertail coverts and vent. Non-breeding adults are brownish with a dark neck and head marked with dark grey-brown. Their upperparts are dark brownish-grey with an unclear pattern of squares on the shoulders, and the underparts, lower face, chin, and throat are whitish. The sexes look alike, though males are significantly heavier than females. During the breeding season, loons live on lakes and other waterways in Canada; the northern United States (including Alaska); and southern parts of Greenland and Iceland.

Engraver: Robert-Ralph Carmichael

CANADA
2008 RRC
TM/MC
DOLLAR

Edge

1 Dollar

Lucky Loonie
Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics

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Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Circulating)
Material Bronze Plated Nickel
Weight 7 g
Diameter 26.5 mm
Thickness 1.95 mm
Shape polygon
Sides 11
Alignment Medal
Mint
Royal Canadian Mint (Maple Leaf)

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