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It’s been 30 years since Canada replaced the $1 bill with the loonie, and even though there are still more than 150 million of the bills in circulation, you soon won’t be able to use them to buy items in stores.

The federal government recently announced it was removing the legal tender designation from the $1 bills — along with the $2 bill, the $1,000 bill and the extremely rare $25 bill and $500 bills — partly to thwart counterfeiters.

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As of Jan. 1, 2021, stores will be legally allowed to refuse to accept the bank notes as legal tender, although the bank notes will continue to be redeemed for their face value at a bank or through the Bank of Canada.

“Removing legal tender status from bank notes is a way to complete their removal from circulation and to help ensure that Canadians have access to the most current bank notes with the latest security features,” Bank of Canada spokeswoman Amelie Ferron-Craig said in an email.