Talk:Quarter (Canadian coin)

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I'm assuming that Canadians call their 25 cent piece a Quarter because of the proximity of the US, where the Quarter Dollar coin is commonly referred to as a quarter. Should this be mentioned in the article? The other possibility is that Canadians nicknamed their coin quarter because simply because it is valued at one quarter of a dollar despite that not being its official name and INDEPENDENT of any influence of the name of the US coin, but that seems unlikely. Jafafa Hots 05:45, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Was the canadain quarter silver? Was it copper/nickel? I would like more detail on the metal history

Both the Canadian and US dollar were based off the old Spanish silver dollar, so both were originally silver. For this same reason, Canadian and American 10¢ and 25¢ and the historical 50¢ and $1 coins were of practically identical size and weight, since they were supposed to contain the same proportion of a silver dollar. For more details on what the metal content of different Canadian coins were through history, see the history section of "Canadian coinage". --thirty-seven 07:34, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, at the end, the Americans call their 25c a Quarter because it is 1/4 of a dollar, is it not? Either we call it independent of the American nickname or we copied the American name it's still for the same reason. --Kvasir 05:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)