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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.
Because of the appearance of the common loon on the back of the dollar coin that replaced the dollar bill in 1987, the word loonie was adopted in Canadian parlance to distinguish the Canadian dollar coin from the dollar bill.