{"id":44817,"date":"2026-04-01T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44817"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:00:08","slug":"royal-mint-marks-cn-towers-50th-anniversary-with-new-2-glow-in-the-dark-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44817","title":{"rendered":"Royal Mint marks CN Tower\u2019s 50th anniversary with new $2 glow-in-the-dark coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/royal-mint-celebrates-cn-towers-50th-anniversary-with-commemorative-2-glow-in-the-dark-coin\/article_79c180f6-d8fc-4e61-bb1d-a00ada0be13f.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69cd25d2be03c.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:188px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Royal Canadian Mint has released a special glow-in-the-dark $2 coin to celebrate the CN Tower\u2019s 50th anniversary. The coin features the tower illuminated above the city, with the Toronto skyline depicted as it looked in 1976 and as it does today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/royal-mint-celebrates-cn-towers-50th-anniversary-with-commemorative-2-glow-in-the-dark-coin\/article_79c180f6-d8fc-4e61-bb1d-a00ada0be13f.html\">Royal Mint marks CN Tower\u2019s 50th anniversary with new $2 glow-in-the-dark coin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>neat!  ordered a roll of glow in the dark ones.  they suckered me into adding a commenotative card with both coins to get free shippping.,..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Canadian Mint has released a special glow-in-the-dark $2 coin to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,1843,225],"class_list":["post-44817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-coins","tag-neat","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44820,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44817\/revisions\/44820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}