There are five brightly-coloured banknotes, including $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100.
There are six denominations of Canadian coins, including 5 cents (called a nickel), 10 cents (a dime), 25 cents (a quarter), 50 cents, one dollar (a looney), and two dollars (a toonie).
Canadian dollars are often called loonies in the same way we call dollars bucks. The nickname refers to the aquatic bird, the loon, on one side of the $1 coin. The nickname for the $2 coin, tooney, comes from the combination of ‘two loonies’. Buck, Huard, and piastre are other common nicknames.
