Looney with ♥

I was at a "Tim Horton's" today (a coffee and doughnut place some Canadians may know), and got this in my change:



Yes, a dollar coin (aka "looney") with a small glass heart glued to it. Is there some contest I've not heard about? I never had anything like this in my change before. Has anyone else gotten one of these?

Maybe it's some sort of dating method for shy people?

Seriously though, I suspected someone's child probably did it. Can't find anything online about it to say if it's a competition as you say; I'm surprised it was in circulation, if anything.

It's kind of surprising that it stuck at all for even a day or two without anyone removing it. I don't imagine it would have been put there much before that.

It reminds me of the late Victorian pennies with some sort of star carved in front of the queen and a hole for a stone (garnet?) which has usually been removed. You see them once in a while for sale on eBay.

I was kinda joking about Tim Horton's because it's almost impossible a Canadian wouldn't know that coffee and doughnut restaurant chain. I used to live in a city of about 300,000 people where there were 47 of them.

Bar girl sent You a signal! Catch the moment, man!

Quote: "KasparsLV"​Bar girl sent You a signal! Catch the moment, man!

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This!

But it was tended over to me by a guy...

Anyway, whoever is spreading these hearts around, there was no phone number on the other side...

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​Seriously though, I suspected someone's child probably did it.

I assume this is what happened to the commemorative 50p's in my collection that are scribbled on with crayon!
True story, they are not to valuable but if I clean them up in hot water as I am planning to sell them once I have amassed a greater number.​