Two Dollar
The first year of the toonie was 1996. It looked much like the coin we know and love today. In 1999, however, Inuk artist Germaine Arnaktauyok designed an image of an Inuit drum dance to commemorate the founding of the new territory of Nunavut. That year, the polar bear design wasn’t circulated in order to celebrate the new territory.
To learn more about the history of the Dollar coin, as well as their different portraits and varieties, please click here.