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6 Comments Add your own
1. Justin | March 1st, 2012 at 15:18
Now if we could get a Canadian icon on those puppies…
2. Michael | March 2nd, 2012 at 12:31
I would love it if this could become permanent…
3. Mike | March 2nd, 2012 at 14:45
Isn’t it illegal to deface Canadian coins? Or do artists get some sort of exception?
“The Currency Act and The Canadian Criminal Code clearly state that no person shall melt down, break up or use otherwise than as currency any coin that is legal tender in Canada.”
4. Roslyn | March 2nd, 2012 at 15:31
Art transcends boundaries. So in a way, yes, artists do have “some sort of excemption”.
5. Colin Shepard | March 2nd, 2012 at 20:30
I was on this site and read about these, he says that they were each hand carved and cut out. These look photoshoped and are the real coins, why the speil?
6. Sans la Reine « The&hellip | March 21st, 2012 at 15:29
[...] while browsing the Canadian Design Resource I came across an interesting project – entitled Sans la Reine – by designer Craig Alun Smith. The work is made up of Canadian coins [...]
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