Mint stuff up. You call that a poppy?

Its one of those little mistakes that change history ever so slightly. Do it enough and you have a whole new story.

CanberraJim said :

Canada got it right, on the first ever coloured coin. See: http://www.joelscoins.com/color.htm.

Having worked with a diesinker and having personally struck fine gold Navy medals all I can say is that the Canadians got the four petals of the poppy right. The rest is pretty ho-hum.

CanberraJim said :

Canada got it right, on the first ever coloured coin. See: http://www.joelscoins.com/color.htm.

Neither is a patch on the Chinese Zodiac Animal Coin Set from Malawi also shown on this web-site.

Canada got it right, on the first ever coloured coin. See: http://www.joelscoins.com/color.htm.

Canada got in early, on the first ever coloured coin. See .

Lazy I said :

A coin _and_ a flower nerd… a dinner party I wouldn’t want to miss!

Tnks.. A good rib tickler reply.

I wondered why they were making money with anemones on, before reading the story. I have poppies of every variety (everywhere, as poppies are wont to do) and that thing is an anemone.

A coin _and_ a flower nerd… a dinner party I wouldn’t want to miss!

So you bought one and now trying to make it worth a lot more by claiming its wrong so they can’t distribute them!! Thats gold!

breda said :

Calochilus, it is a Flanders Poppy, a European variety which is the worldwide symbol for Remembrance Day:

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=flanders+poppy&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=661&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Q8i0Tv3OM6yZiAeXs5TuAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CEQQsAQ

I am guessing that you were thinking of the Iceland poppy, which is the one commonly grown in Australian gardens.

This was the whole point of my comment. The poppy figured in Remembrance day activities is the Flanders Poppy, Papaver rhoeas.
see John McCrae “In Flanders Fields”
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/in-flanders-fields-the-poppies-blow-between-the/347839.html
Papaver rhoeas has but 4 petals, arranged in two pairs opposite, decussate, crumpled.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaver_rhoeas (4th photo)
the image of the new coin would suggest at least 16 petals, NOT a poppy at all. Papaver nudicaule, the Iceland Poppy also has 4 petals similarly arranged. The only poppies with more than 4 petals are selected garden mutants called Shirley Poppies. again , these look nothing like the coin.

Jonah Bologna should read his dictionary more carefully, the suffix “ales” refers to suprafamily hierarchies. Papaver belongs in the Order Papaverales, the genus Anemone (to which anemones and ranunculus belong) are in the Order Ranales (also known as Ranunculales), not so closely related at all. The significance is that Papaver has a seed capsule containing many seeds, Anemone has free carpels (each containing one seed) arranged on a central receptacle (looks just like the image of the coin).