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The one dollar Loonie is 11-sided and made from an alloy the Royal Canadian Mint calls aureate (bronze-plated nickel.) As noted before, the two dollar Toonie is bi-metallic, from 1996 to 2011 it had an outer ring of pure nickel, with a center made of a primarily copper alloy.
1 California Native American myths have a recurring figure, Loon or Loon Woman, based on the great northern loon. 2  The great northern loon is the provincial bird of Ontario and is depicted on the Canadian one-dollar coin, which has come to be known affectionately as the  loonie .ither way, the name refers to the loonâs poor ability to walk on land. Another possible derivation is from the Norwegian word lom for these birds, which comes from Old Norse lomr, lÃ³mr possibly cognate With english, lament referring to the characteristic plaintive sound of the. loon