The moose finally struts onto a Canadian coin

 The silver bullion coin with a moose on it, now being sold by Royal Canadian Mint via bullion dealers. Photograph by: Handout Photo , .

By Randy Boswell, Postmedia News
About 75 years after Canadians began making a national pastime out of mistaking the caribou on their quarters for a moose, the Royal Canadian Mint is selling a silver coin that depicts the real deal — alces alces, the king of all deer, the namesake beast of Moose Jaw, Sask., and Moosehead beer.
The caribou has been featured on Canada's 25-cent piece since 1937, but the misidentification of that antlered animal as a moose — the caribou's much larger, marsh-dwelling cousin — is as common among Canadians as it is for foreign tourists to mistake the groundhogs on Parliament Hill for beavers. Now, taxonomically challenged Canadians can compare and contrast the two minted ungulates, the moose distinguished by its conspicuous "dewlap" (the hair-covered flap of skin hanging from its lower jaw) and its larger, more flattened antlers...Continue reading....

Moose in truck.