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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Not sure why but way, way back I USED to get Canadian coins of all types in change and no one cared at all. I USED to safe them all and tryed to make collections out of them. Then all of a sudden, NONE. I haven't found a Canadian coin in change in years. I've even asked many people I know and they say the same thing, NONE. I'm in the Chicago area and even at coin shows I don't see many Canadian coins. I've asked at stores, restaurants, etc. and get the same thing, NONE.
I wonder if Canada is ignoring Illinois.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Both currencies are at parity. I suspect it's a lot harder to profit from exchanging them all the time than it was when it was at 75 cents $USD per 1 Dollar $CAD.
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Valued Member
United States
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I've got a bunch of Canadian coins that don't fit in my collection... nickels, dimes and quarters... no cents at this point. Was thinking about just rolling them up with the rest of my US change. Someone can find them in rolls? Problem is that it's about $10 face... $7 in quarters, the rest split between nickels and dimes. Not sure how happy my bank would be if they opened the rolls and found about half was Canadian?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2661 Posts |
Here in North Carolina I keep the ones I get, but they come in bank wrapped rolls all the time. I have had bank tellers tell me that they do not worry with the Canadian coins it is the other foreign stuff that they cannot use.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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here in NC they will not take them and if you mistakenly put one in they really treat you like you are trying to pass counterfeit coins or something. They don't want them and they aren't scared to let you know. Around here they are as worthless as metal slugs
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Valued Member
United States
335 Posts |
I get lots of Canadian change here in Michigan (I can see Canada from where I work). I collect Canadian pennies, and I just started collecting the nickels. Any larger coins I get in change or in rolls, I save up (along with duplicate nickels). Then, when friends come from Canada, I let them know how much Canadian change I have for them, and they bring be that amount in rolls of pennies and nickels from their bank.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm in the same boat as Bryan - I get them in the rolls I get from the bank, but if I try to put one back in a bag of change that I'm dumping, their coin counter kicks it out & they look at me like I tried to rob them. A year or so back I changed my strategy - since they used copper in Canada until 1996, I check the dates. If it's a copper date, I just toss them in w/ my junk US copper and figure that it will all be treated the same at some point down the road. The more recent ones I toss in penny jars here & there.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I get them from time to time, but I just stick them in a baggy. I guess when I get about $1000 worth I can take a trip to Canada (about 700 miles north) and use them for a couple of beers and a couple of nights at a decent hotel. Until then, I just stick them aside. Anybody want them at 1:1 for U.S. dollars? I have about $20 now.
I don't "roll them back up" because I don't roll coins before turning them in to my bank, and my bank's change machine is smart enough to know the difference...so it spits all of them back out at me.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I experience banks here in Michigan that will NOT accept the Canadian coin, so I have to hide them in rolls and spend on gas. If I'm roll seaching dimes, I usually get 30-40 per $1k searched. So that means I've passed about 5 or 600 of them this year alone.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Valued Member
United States
108 Posts |
I spent 6 months in Vancouver working and would buy a couple of boxes of pennies every week. One box I remember was completely full of US pennies. Could not believe it.
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Valued Member
United States
273 Posts |
Bryan, I too am in NC and get Canadian change in bank rolls all the time. Worthless slugs? You must be in a pretty redneck part of the state.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You must be in a pretty redneck part of the state. Yeah ever heard of Bessemer City? right between Kings Mtn and Gastonia? little town with a population of about 5000 with more cows in the dairy farm than there are people around here, it is 4.2 square miles of pretty much nothing to do. as I said if you even mistakenly slip one in they look at you like you were trying to pass them counterfeit money and are going to call the cops if you don't give them a "good" coin. here is what the BC website says about the population around here Races in Bessemer City: • White Non-Hispanic (81.5%) • Black (13.4%) • Hispanic (3.5%) • Two or more races (1.2%) • Other race (1.0%) • American Indian (0.6%) Ancestries: • United States (21.4%) • German (8.7%) • Irish (7.8%) • English (5.6%) • Scotch-Irish (2.0%) • Dutch (1.7%). |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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One box I remember was completely full of US pennies. Could not believe it. Probably meant for Blaine, just S. of the border. I'm about an hour south, but I cannot get away with spending a single Canadian nickel. It's not like the "old days"--I have a drawer full of change I can't use. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Yeah ever heard of Bessemer City? right between Kings Mtn and Gastonia? little town with a population of about 5000 with more cows in the dairy farm than there are people around here, it is 4.2 square miles of pretty much nothing to do. as I said if you even mistakenly slip one in they look at you like you were trying to pass them counterfeit money and are going to call the cops if you don't give them a "good" coin. here is what the BC website says about the population around here Haha, yeah I've heard of it. I live in Charlotte, passed near Bessemer City the other day. I wonder if it's a small town thing that they pay that much attention to the coins... because like I said, I get them in change and rolls in Charlotte all the time. Maybe just bring them to the city next time? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm in the Chicago area and even at coin shows I don't see many Canadian coins. I've asked at stores, restaurants, etc. and get the same thing, NONE. I wonder if Canada is ignoring Illinois. I am too and the rate is about 3 cents a box, 1.5 nickels per box and 1 dime every 10 boxes. I've found two quarters in change in the last year, but I don't roll hunt those often. I haven't found any in the halves I've been through. I'm not sure where they've all gone though - I used to find them all the time when I was a kid in the 80s. Maybe the proliferation of coin counters in the Chicago area? Anything ferromagnetic gets stripped out by the coin stars and TCF counters. I've found a number of canucks in those if I happen to be around when they have to open them. |
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