Loonie with a Robert-Ralph Carmichael design of a common loon floating in water. The coin was immediately nicknamed the "loonie" across English Canada, and became known as a "huard", French for "loon", in Quebec. The loonie entered circulation on June 30, 1987, as 40 million coins were introduced into major cities across the country. Over 800 million loonies had been struck by the coin's 20th anniversary. Two years after the loonie's introduction, the Bank of Canada ceased production of the dollar banknote. The final dollar bills were printed on June 30, 1989. Initial support for the coin was mixed, but withdrawing
Hong Kong one-mil coin the Chinese characters was altered to Hong Kong One-thousand (香港一千), indicating the value of a thousandth of a dollar. 1863: 19,000,000 1864: Unknown 1865: 40,000,000 (Two variations exist - one with a hyphen between HONG and KONG on the obverse, one without hyphen between the two words) 1866: Unknown (Regarded as one of the rarest coin in Hong Kong coinage. One of the samples is stored in the collection of the Melbourne Museum.) 1866: 20,000,000 Hong Kong one-mil coin The one mil coin was the smallest denomination of the Hong Kong dollar from 1863 to 1866, after this date it