Canadian dollar
The Canadian dollar is the currency of Canada. It is abbreviated with the dollar sign $. There is no standard disambiguating form, but the abbreviations Can$, CA$ and C$... Wikipedia
- Code: CAD
- 1 ⁄ 100: Cent, and sou (colloquial in French)
- Plural: dollars
- Cent: cents
- Symbol: $
- Cent: ¢
- Nickname: Loonie, buck, Huard, piastre (pronounced piasse in popular usage)
- Banknotes: $5, $10, $20, $50, $100
- Freq. used: 5¢, 10¢, 25¢, $1, $2
- Rarely used: 1¢ (discontinued, still legal tender), 50¢ (still minted)
- Date of introduction: 1858
- Replaced: Canadian pound, New Brunswick pound, Nova Scotian dollar, British Columbia dollar, Prince Edward Island dollar, Newfoundland dollar
- Official user(s): Canada
- Unofficial user(s): Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Central bank: Bank of Canada
- Printer: Canadian Bank Note Company
- Mint: Royal Canadian Mint
- Inflation: 1.8%
- Source: Statistics Canada, December 2024
- Method: Consumer price index
- Data source: DuckDuckGo