Skyline Dollar - Toronto $1 .999 pure silver note. The Skyline Dollars feature prominent cities from around the world in their first five installments. The incredibly thin and flexible silver sheets and authentic guilloche patterns create an exceptional numismatic collectible. In fact, the notes merely measure mind-boggling 0.045 mm in thickness. Mintage: 5,000 pieces worldwide. Toronto is the largest city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. With a population of 2,731,571, it is the fourth-largest city in North America after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles. Toronto is the centre of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), the most populous metropolitan area in Canada, and anchors the Golden Horseshoe, a heavily urbanized region that is home to 8.7 million people, or around 26% of Canada's population. A global city, Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario, Toronto is situated on a broad sloping plateau intersected by an extensive network of rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest. Aboriginal peoples have inhabited the area now known as Toronto for thousands of years. Permanent European settlement dates back to 1787, when British officials negotiated the Toronto Purchase with the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation that saw the surrender of their lands to the British Crown. The British established the Town of York, and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York and suffered heavy damage by U.S. troops. York was renamed and incorporated as the City of Toronto in 1834, and became the capital of the province of Ontario in 1867. Toronto has since expanded past its original borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities at various times in its histo
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