Will You Be Collecting Canadian Pennies?

I'm an avid US coin collector. Coins from Canada do nothing for me. I get mad every time they slip me some in my change. I do not keep any of it, get rid of it right away.

BUT! I would love to have a few gold and silver maple leafs!

I collect the small and large cents. I have one of each year from the 1930s up into the 1990s and a few from the 1800s. It is hard to find them anymore in circulation, since I've moved to NC in 1996 now. I did buy some 2012 cents, since it is their last year of making them.

I doubt I'll save any others, that I don't need for my coin folders.

I always save Canada coins. Have done so since I was a kids in the 60s. Sorry to see the cent go. Have to buy this year's set to keep my small cents current. Growing up in Connecticut and Maine, used to see lots of Canadian coins. Still have a couple old $2 bills somewhere in a drawer. Have a great affection for the great white north. Got married there, once, in fact.

Collecting from found coins, trades, purchases, and gifts I am now 4 coins away from a full date set 1920- Present.
Just missing some hard ones '22, '23, '24, and '26.

I have been roll searching for a year. When I first started I returned the Canadian pennies to the bank. Then I saw that they were copper up until 1990 (?) so I saved everything earlier that that (?) date. Then the next thing that happened was the Canadian's banished the penny from their line up. Now I'm back to saving every Canadian penny I come accross only seperating them between copper and zinc.

What was once simple is now fast becoming complicated. What's a poor guy to do.

Being a former resident of upstate New York, Canadian coins could always be found in circulation. I have about 25,000 Canadian cents, all pulled from circulation, rolled by date. I have found Canadian small cents in every date since 1920 (even a 1940 Newfoundland cent, too.)

I always have.... Here in New York it is common to find Canadian coins in pocket change, especially pennies, I keep all the ones I find. That combined with having collected Lincolns from circulation since I was a kid, made it easy for me to start collecting Canadian cents. I don't think I would have started saving or collecting Canada cents had it not been for those two factors.

I enjoyed collecting Canada pennies from circulation so I started buying the earlier dates at coin shows and ebay. I also started to buy and collect the 1858-1920 Canada Large cents. And the pre confederate and colonial Penny Tokens as well. And have a few of the early Province pennies too.

I currently have a large zip lock bag full of the modern small cents I find in circulation. And for the last week I have been separating all 1920-1952 king George's and storing in a 2x2 vinyl page binder by date. I plan to continue collecting the series and will continue saving what ever I find in circulation.

Even in Hawaii I find Canadian cents all the time. I keep them all and bought a blank cent album to keep all of them in. I only go by date though. No varieties or errors.