British 5 Pence In Canadian Dime Roll

I think dimes aren't exactly low denomination coins. Ten of them make a dollar.
Plus, it's worth this much where I come from (image from wikipedia):

Yes, that's 3 zeroes on the coin. The current biggest circulating coin denomination, only slightly bigger than a quarter in size.
At least it's half the weight of the old thick bimetallic one. No one wants holes in their purse, wallet or pocket, don't they?

I guess being the one of the smallest coins in circulation, people often lose them. I've never paid enough attention before to sidewalks, guess I should start. Maybe I'll strike gold (literally and not literally )

Amazing find! Too bad 20p is one of the coins that I know I won't find in Canadian rolls. I guess I'll only have this fairly worn '87.
I like the lion in the 10p coin too, but I think it looks too plain. It would look better if the lion was a little bigger.

Just wondering, are 20p rolls 7-sided like the coin? Or are they still round?

Guess what, I just found a 5p in a dime roll too! You know when you just unwrap a roll and se the sides? I thought, "Hang on, that's no dime, it's too thick!" I pulled it out, and it's a 1990 5p!
I also got a 1p from the bank (along with a 1945 and 1967 penny, a Russian coin and an unknown middle Eastern one). The teller was really nice and he showed me the tray where they put coins in. Strangely, it is quite pink, with a hint of circulation cameo on reverse!



Perhaps their change is quite slippery on rainy days, and they don't bother picking it up either because it's muddy. The only shiny thing so far I've seen on a sidewalk is a soda can pull-to-open tab thing.

Poor old design coins. I wonder what Ironside is thinking about the ARP? Are the steel ones being melted down too?

If they are sold by weight, then might there not be more or less of the coin in the bag since they can get worn down or get something stuck on them or something?

It's from 1988, so it's still copper! Had it found its way to The Royal Mint it would be melted, wouldn't it?

Oh well, if they don't have much intrinsic value, at least they're shiny! I wonder when the shield design ones will make their way here? The newest pence I've seen here is 2007 (but it was from a human not a roll so I did cheat a bit).

Aww, poor penny. I hope you find it a good home

That's nice! I'm not sure about copper being melted here, but I hope not (my hopes aren't high though, since there are practically no George Vs in circulation). I've grown quite attached to pennies with Bertie's head on them.

Just to sidetrack a bit, I just watched The King's Speech last Thursday, and when I got to the swearing scene I really had to re-watch Chains from Blackadder II

I guess people there from the UK see Canadian coins as a rarity, just like how Canadians see UK coins Hopefully more make their way there

Might it be because there less more Canadian people coming to the UK than the other way around? I have a teacher from the UK, and another teacher that taught in the UK (and be called a lumberjack there, no he's not a lumberjack!) then came back.

Maybe if I can ever go to the UK sometime in the future I'll bring several Canadian coins with me and "drop" them in random places for people to find

Wow! That's a 34 year old coin! Amazing find It's not even that easy to find coins that old in rolls here. It's steel, steel, and steel again.

I've also found an Australian 5 cent pretending to be a nickel in a roll. It doesn't really matter though, it's quite cute It's amazing how coins can travel around the world!

I've always been wondering, what surreal tale can it tell us only if it could speak?
Who knows, it might have seen a real-life Blackadder-esque event

I needed to get used to how thin dimes were too when I came here. They feel too small and thin. I used to keep dropping them. Even now I'm not a fan of them. Its size is ridiculous.
In Indonesia current circulating coins are mostly aluminium, so they can be quite thick but still very light. So light it's a bit like plastic if you ask me. At least it's not too heavy instead like the "yellow" version coins make holes in your pocket is a recurring joke

Also saw some pre-decimal copper today, my firsts (also saw a £1 and a £2, but they aren't as interesting). A teacher of mine owns a few, mostly pennies of George Vs with worn smooth Brittanias. Unfortunately they haven't been stored properly and had started to corrode green...
There was also a small thick not round brass coin, apparently it's pronounced "thrup-ny bit" That really doesn't roll off my tongue.

I haven't found any coins on the sidewalk (but I saw a crushed plastic bottle cap today) but I've been having lucky streaks with banks lately. I wonder, is it because of the silver sixpence I bought? It seems too improbable for all of them to be a coincidence Maybe it's more than just a superstition?

I got two 1991 5 pence pieces a while back in US dime rolls, and just got a 6 pence from 1954 in a US penny roll.

I always love finding foreign coins, that is how I started THREE decades ago, the US coins never appealed to me and my dad asked at his bank all the time for NON-US coins and I ended up with hundreds that way.







I started a Thread a while back just for that purpose, "A Coin's Life" https://goccf.com/t/168956 It's not a dead topic but just in hibernation.

If you feel like being creative you can give that 5 pence a voice... from Royal Mint to your hand... where has it been???

Floating aluminum coins on water... https://goccf.com/t/166461

another thread I'm about to resurrect... I just need to get all my aluminum coins togather

Thanks SlurExe97 ""I've no motivation to work on Legacy for a long time... Still stuck on Chapter 4"" another budding author ? is that a novel you are working on?

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sentimental stories

well if they were not over the top and sentimental they would not be good

Be Creative... Be Amazing... Be The Coin
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WOW the word... BE looks weird sometimes