This display, by the Currency Museum, walks you through more than 150 years of the Canadian 1 cent piece. Featuring 12 significant coins, this exhibition evokes Canadian and world history even as it profiles our humble pennies. The coins are backed up with entertaining graphics in a fun catalogue format demonstrating the enormous change in the buying power of the cent over the last 100 years.
Come and see both the first and the last pennies struck at the Royal Canadian Mint. Come see what they could buy.
Located behind the Grand Hall