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Valued Member
Canada
262 Posts |
i kept the first 2012 penny I could find, beyond that I'll probably collect 1996 and earlier pennies for their copper value [97%].
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Pillar of the Community
United States
927 Posts |
I have always kept the Canadian coins that I have found in change. I will continue to do so, but they will probably be harder to find when they stop making them for circulation. But actually, I have very few of the steel cents now. I still find more of the copper cents which might sound kind of strange.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
610 Posts |
I keep all COPPER cents(up to 1979-Canadian.)
A fair amount of American coins circulate in my city and a lot more come from roll searching.
This is how I got into collecting U.S. coins.
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Valued Member
Canada
262 Posts |
@collectall Canadian pennies are 98 percent copper through to the end of1996, not 1979
Edited by MercuryDime
04/29/2012 02:02 am
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Valued Member
United States
64 Posts |
I only just started saving them last week. As I pull the wheaties out of my copper cent bucket so I also pull out the copper Canadian cents.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1007 Posts |
I'm in North Dakota so Canadian coins are plentiful around here.
To answer your question, I collect Canadian cents, 1858-2012 and varieties along with all Canadian coins. I like my Canadian coin collection just as much as my American coin collection.
Edited by matchbox
04/29/2012 9:55 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
610 Posts |
Yes I know MercuryDime. I only collect up to 1979,because these have the most copper per weight(3.24grams) 1980 & 1981 are (2.8 grams) The rest up to 1996 are (2.5 grams) I found I was hoarding far,far too much copper after 1979. (I took a couple of hundred rolls back to the bank.) So that is why I only collect Up to 1979. Because these dates contain the most weight. Thank you for telling me anyway.There might be some that don't know the differences in the copper as per date and weight  Edited by collectall
04/30/2012 03:58 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1116 Posts |
I don't find a lot of Canadian coins where I am, but the ones that I do find I keep. Why? Kind of the oddity factor because there is not that many of them. I've gone through almost 80 boxes of pennies and have found a little over 300 of them. With all of the Canadian visitors that come to the area I would have thought that there would be more found in circulation here, but there isn't. Probably the distance from the border has something to do with it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6326 Posts |
Here in Kansas, the center of the Continental United States, I see a small to moderate amount of Canadian Cents as a relatively active U.S. Cent roll searcher.
I have always saved every Canadian Cent regardless of year or condition, and so I've ended up with a pretty nice batch over the years.
However, I don't actively "collect" them, in the sense of putting them into folders or albums. I do not seperate them into Copper only, or by year, etc. etc.
Just one big "batch"....that's all.
Someday, as others have mentioned, I may pursue an album for them, and try to build a proper "collection" of them, but for now, I just "hoard".
The N.I.F.C. status does not change my plans, style of collecting them, or future intentions at this point.
But, as others have mentioned, I doubt I will pursue the NIFC ones for any kind of premium, as mine would only include "circulation grade" examples.....and of course no Proofs.
And I think 1996, was mentioned as the last year of the Coppers, might be a good place to end a Canadian Cent collection, for THIS U.S. collector anyway. Or at least somewhere around there.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
524 Posts |
I don't get very many here in Missouri but have always kept what I found. I have converted an old Lincoln Cent folder to a Canada cent folder and have most of the 30's-60's (date set)filled thanks to a bag I got at a pawn shop a few months ago. I need to pursue the newer dates before they start vanishing so I may have a post on the trade page sometime soon. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I only collect their large cents, 1858 - 1920.
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Moderator
 United States
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When I lived up north they were common enough to start a collection. I do not see them much down here, but when I run across them I keep them for nostalgic reasons.
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New Member
United States
40 Posts |
I won't go out of my way to collect them but being where I'm from, they are plentiful. My end goal (at least as far as the Canadian coins is concerend) is to accumulate over $1000 worth and eventually take a trip to Canada (#1 to cash them in) and #2 for a golfing, fishing or a ski trip. So far at a little over 4 months of hard roll hunting I'm at over $43 worth of quarters, dimes, nickels and cents. At this rate that trip won't be too far into the future!
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Pillar of the Community
614 Posts |
For some reason I always keep all Canadian coins that come my way. I've even " inherited" a 1931 penny from my mother's "Dairy Barn" days. :D |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1770 Posts |
ive always kept the copper canadians guess ill keep the other ones as well now
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