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Medals & Honours. Now that the Euro is going strong (well, sort of), we can finally say that Canada has one of the world’s oldest independent currencies. First introduced to Britain’s North American colonies in 1853, the Canadian Dollar. Has remained the basic unit of Canadian cash ever since. Originally pegged to the British Pound Sterling, and then to the Gold Standard. In the opinion of the International Monetary Fund, it is one of the world’s seven “ reserve currencies. All of Canadas coins have a pi...