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Coins Designed by Q?

Jonathan H. Adler • December 3, 2009 8:13 am

The AP reports on espionage fears stoked by commemorative Canadian coins.

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    8 Comments

    1. geokstr says:

      Probably unlikely. It’s been rumored from multiple reliable sources that Star Trek-The Next Generation might only have been fiction.

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      December 3, 2009, 8:43 am

    2. Ilec says:

      I recall the hilarity that this story caused in Canada when these concerns about Canadian “spy” coins first popped up a couple of years ago. To read the level of concern that this apparently raised in high levels of the U.S. intelligence establishment just gives me another chuckle.

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      December 3, 2009, 9:24 am

    3. Mark Buehner says:

      Reminds of the movie Canadian Bacon with John Candy. The government convinces America that Canada is out to get them, and suddenly all the Canadian friendliness is taken as sinister. I also recall Canada’s entire electricity grid being monitored by an elderly couple knitting and drinking tea.

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      December 3, 2009, 9:55 am

    4. Vinny B. says:

      Sounds like a bunch of loonies are needlessly concerned about loonies.

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      December 3, 2009, 10:57 am

    5. Guy says:

      Mark Buehner: Reminds of the movie Canadian Bacon with John Candy. The government convinces America that Canada is out to get them, and suddenly all the Canadian friendliness is taken as sinister.I also recall Canada’s entire electricity grid being monitored by an elderly couple knitting and drinking tea.

      “You sold control of American missiles to a foreign country?”
      “If you can call Canada ‘foreign’.”
      “Or ‘a country’.”

      Also, I’ve heard they’ve massed 90% of their population along the border in preparation for an invasion.

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      December 3, 2009, 11:42 am

    6. Dan Weber says:

      This was a plot point on “The Agency,” IIRC, a drama about the CIA. Episode aired around 2002 or so. Protagonists are undercover in a foreign country and have swept everything they got for bugs, except the pocket change.

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      December 3, 2009, 4:18 pm

    7. Fub says:

      From TFA:

      The mint produced nearly 30 million such quarters in 2004 commemorating Canada’s 117,000 war dead.

      That’s about $64.10 Canadian per fallen soldier, or 641 Canadian dimes.

      This year is the 250th anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, the pivotal battle which sealed Britain’s possession of Canada. That’s 25 decades.

      25 + 641 = 666

      Skeptics will say that is just coincidence.

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      December 3, 2009, 4:27 pm

    8. fishbane says:

      The really amusing part is to consider that paranoias frequently reflect guilty minds. How many variants of these have our intel groups passed around?

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      December 3, 2009, 8:24 pm

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