You Can Get Canada's New Toonie That's Almost All Black By Trading In Unused Coins & Bills

If you were never able to find this coin in your change, you can get Canada's new toonie that's almost entirely black by trading in your old coins and bills.

Plus, you'll be able to exchange unused currency for even more new coins from the Royal Canadian Mint including a green toonie!

It was just announced that a Royal Canadian Mint coin exchange for the new $2 coin honouring Queen Elizabeth II featuring a black outer ring is happening at the Silver Gold Bull location in Calgary's Southcentre Mall.

If you're in or near Calgary this weekend, you can trade in your coins and bills from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, September 15 and Saturday, September 16, 2023.

There will be a limit to the number of coins you can exchange while supplies last, the Royal Canadian Mint noted.

Coin exchanges are cash-only transactions which means any Canadian money that's a circulation coin or banknote is acceptable.

You can trade in dimes, nickels, quarters, loonies or toonies — and even bills — that you haven't used yet to get the black toonie honouring Queen Elizabeth II.

Since coin swaps are equivalent value exchanges, any combination of coins or bank notes adding up to $2 are allowed to be exchanged for the new toonie, the Mint told Narcity.

The new $2 coin to honour Queen Elizabeth II's 70-year reign as monarch went into circulation in December 2022, just a few months after she died.

It has the design of a standard $2 coin which includes the queen's effigy, her name, D.G. Regina, the year it was minted and the gold core.

But this new toonie features a black outer ring that's meant to be reminiscent of a mourning armband.

Not only will you be able to trade your old coins and bills for the Queen Elizabeth II toonie with a black outer ring but you'll also be able to get the new green $2 coin and colourful $1 coin.

That new toonie was put into circulation to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day and features three unique designs that represent First Nations, Inuit and Métis people and communities.

It has splashes of red, orange, white and black on the inner core that's usually gold.

Then, the new loonie that recently went into circulation is in honour of Elsie MacGill, the first woman in Canada to become an engineer who was known as the "Queen of the Hurricanes."

There are hints of green, brown, blue and red hues on the $1 coin.

When King Charles III was coronated on May 6, 2023, the prime minister revealed how Canadian money will change now that there is a new reigning monarch.

The federal government has tasked the Royal Canadian Mint with designing and placing an effigy of the king on all new Canadian circulation coins to replace Queen Elizabeth.

According to the Mint, the design of the new King Charles III effigy is expected to be revealed sometime this fall but there is no timeline on when you'll get a coin featuring the king in your change.