How Many Canadian Collectors Do We Have Here

I like the grey side myself very interesting working on the nickels right now 1922 to date.

THE OTHER BRUCE.

Well, I'm guess I am going to be a "collector of Canadian coins". I once collected Mexican quite seriously, when I lived there, but returning to "thr states'm made it ncessary that they be sold to feed the kids. After servung "Uncle Sam" for 20 years,and then having to work for a living, my coin collecng sort of went into limbo. Since retiring, ( Getting that old SS check, and combined with my Nave penasion, I HAVE GOTTEN INTO US, all I could afford, and have a sizable "conglomeration" of everything that no one else wanted, ( because it was still in the "lot" I bought, on ebay. Recently, I had a chance to pick up 1800+ Canadian cents, 30's, 40's, and 50's. I havent received them yet, so I don't know if they have been "picked over", but no harm done, even if they have, They will still be dates, etc, that I didn't have before. The existing coins I HAVe are all "found in rolls", along with some other countries, truck-wash tokkens, washers, and even SBA dollars in quarter rolls. I doubt I will ever complete a date set, Canadian, or US cent set, but I am into varieties, since 2005, when I joined my first forum, Coppercoins.com. One of your, (our) members put me onto this forum, and I gu=ess you are stuck with a "dirty-old-man, with a new liking for Canadian cents, at least.
Allow me to wish all members, a very happy, and prosperous New Year. If you can't make much sense of this, not to worry. I am legally blind, (and not a typist) so mt finger doesn't always hit the key I want, (even after proof-reading)!
Dick

I am Canadian! (heehee)

Collecting only Canadian 5 cents.

I'm here as well, not so much coins, mostly canadian bank notes, but I have a few good coins in hand

I love me some Canadian coins. I especially love the Large Cents.
Todd

Canadian coins and banknote collection and now world paper money collector

I have a lot from growing up in upstate ny so add me too!

Having grown up in Wisconsin, I saw a lot of Canadian as a kid. I used to have this deal with a bank when I was a kid where I could buy Canadian coins at half face (in US dollars). After picking the dates I wanted, I had a scam going for a while with a soda machine which took Canadian coins. Sodas were 30c. Using Canadian nickels and dimes I'd insert 25c, then make sure to use a Canadian quarter so that I had 50c "credit" on the machine. Of course if you hit the change return you just get back your own money. Instead I'd actually buy the soda and get back 20c in US money. Since the 50c Canadian cost me 25c US to purchase and I got back 20c US in change, the soda actually cost me 5c US to purchase. Since my family was pretty poor while I was growing up, soda was definitely not something that was ever in my home so....what a treat.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot the point of this post....I too have an extensive collection of Canadian (as well as everything else...).

My favorite part of Canada coins are the pre-confederation tokens. I found a load of those for a while at 49c each and bought as many as I could.