Mystery revealed: Poppy quarter led to U.S. spy warnings

Mystery revealed: Poppy quarter led to U.S. spy warnings

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WASHINGTON — The surprise explanation behind the U.S. government's sensational but false warnings about mysterious Canadian spy coins is the harmless poppy quarter, the world's first colorized coin.

They were so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. army contractors travelling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them.

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What a wonderful world. I have a dozen or so of these coins which I saved because they were so unusual. Now I can sleep at night knowing every word spoken at my house wasn't recorded by the CSIS.

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Edit to add pic of quarter

[edit on 7/5/07 by masqua]

They were so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. army contractors travelling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them.

Idiots.

They should get out more.
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They're scared of middle school girls talking smack about them, haha, the whole US presidency, and their secret agencies are so frightened of everything, it's hillarious!!!!

Just imagine if they had asked a Canadian about the coin, or better yet phoned the Cnd, Mint

But, Sauron... can any Canadian be trusted?



BTW... there's a fairly good little vid provided in the link. I'll edit it here, if I can get it to work. It's neither a Google nor YouTube vid, so I'll just provide a LINK




[edit on 7/5/07 by masqua]