1968 Canada Dollar Coin - Bin It?

If it's not uncirculated condition, give it as part of a tip. I have left nickel dollars and fifty cent pieces (even a worn-out 1859 cent) as tips and the recipients are happy, curious, amazed, confused to get them. Most non-collectors don't even realize they are real. It can also spur someone else to start collecting, or show it to their children who may start collecting. Win/win.

It's a nickel dollar, made of nickel, not copper nickel. The 1968 has some doubled dies, check for them first.

They're inexpensive, and I agree with the above posts - if you don't want it, leave it as a tip, or give it to children. They'll be curious getting something you don't see every day.

Composition of "nickel" circulating coins.

Canadian 5 cents:
- 1955 to 1981...100% nickel.
- 1982 to 2000....75% copper, 25% nickel (alloy, not plated). In 1982, with the new alloy, they must have had problems because some of the coins tarnish and turn dark.
- starting in 1999, coins with P (for plated, not a mintmark) are made of 94.5% steel, 3.5% copper, with the other 2%, nickel-plating. The last year with the p is 2006 and later ones are all plated steel even though there is no p.

10 cents:
-1968 to 2000...100% nickel.
-1999p up.......92% steel, 5.5% copper, 2.5% nickel-plating. After 2000, only nickel-plated steel is used, and the p is also dropped after 2006.

25 cents:
- 1968 to 2001...100%.
- 1999p up........94% steel, 3.8% copper, 2.2% nickel-plating. After 2001, only nickel-plated steel is used and the p is dropped after 2006.

50 cents:
- 1968 to 2000...100% nickel.
- 1999p up........93.25% steel, 4.75% copper, 2% nickel-plating. (same as 10 cents from above ).

1 dollar:
- 1968 to 1987 - 100% nickel (1987 only in mint sets).

Loonies:
-1987 up...91% nickel, 8.5% bronze (alloy, not plated).