Will You Be Collecting Canadian Pennies?

I'm glad to see this topic getting some responses but I have one more question: Will you continue to keep collecting Canadian pennies in the hope that they will become valuable over the years, as more and more get melted down and destroyed? Of course, I believe that a lot, and I do mean A LOT, need to be melted down or destroyed before they even have some numismatic value to them.

I like Canadian coins and try to pick any nice ones when I see them at a good price.

Many of the coin shops I go to have foreign coin bins. that sell foreign coins by the pound, so I get a lot of Canada coins at less then face value.

I think I have most of the small cents, 1920 and up. And quite a few large cents.

I agree with another member, I would like to find a nice album to organize a set of them.

I'm an avid US coin collector. Coins from Canada do nothing for me. I get mad every time they slip me some in my change. I do not keep any of it, get rid of it right away.

BUT! I would love to have a few gold and silver maple leafs!

I collect the small and large cents. I have one of each year from the 1930s up into the 1990s and a few from the 1800s. It is hard to find them anymore in circulation, since I've moved to NC in 1996 now. I did buy some 2012 cents, since it is their last year of making them.

I doubt I'll save any others, that I don't need for my coin folders.

I always save Canada coins. Have done so since I was a kids in the 60s. Sorry to see the cent go. Have to buy this year's set to keep my small cents current. Growing up in Connecticut and Maine, used to see lots of Canadian coins. Still have a couple old $2 bills somewhere in a drawer. Have a great affection for the great white north. Got married there, once, in fact.

Collecting from found coins, trades, purchases, and gifts I am now 4 coins away from a full date set 1920- Present.
Just missing some hard ones '22, '23, '24, and '26.

I have been roll searching for a year. When I first started I returned the Canadian pennies to the bank. Then I saw that they were copper up until 1990 (?) so I saved everything earlier that that (?) date. Then the next thing that happened was the Canadian's banished the penny from their line up. Now I'm back to saving every Canadian penny I come accross only seperating them between copper and zinc.

What was once simple is now fast becoming complicated. What's a poor guy to do.

Being a former resident of upstate New York, Canadian coins could always be found in circulation. I have about 25,000 Canadian cents, all pulled from circulation, rolled by date. I have found Canadian small cents in every date since 1920 (even a 1940 Newfoundland cent, too.)