Canadian Roll Hunting

Ive been trying to get CWR of quarters to find some older dates and cant seem to get them around where I am. Not even looking for the silver either. I'm talking like 1988-2000 I'm looking for my album. Best I've been able to do is 2001 and newer. This sucks It hurts to think I may have to buy the darn quarters to fill. I get buying the silvers but I really don't want to have to buy newer coins. Basically need everything from the above mentioned time frame.

Today I got a box of nickels. It had a bunch of different kinds of rolls, which is always nice.


Here are a couple lowballs - possibly the most worn base-metal Canadian coins I've seen (excepting pennies). This is because these cupronickels had to go up against rock-solid nickel and steel coins every day of their miserable lives, and they lost every time. They're starting to get what I always called the "1£ look".


I found just 5 Laureate Elizabeth nickels: 2 1960s, 2 1963s, and a 1964. (Not a single rabbit in the whole box!) The 1964 has apparently faced a tough existence against numerous coin-rolling machines of old, and now sports a lovely star pattern.


As for rare dates: I finally found a 1991. Actually, I found three.


And a very nice 2000-P! Hooray!

I don't know how much these are worth, but with a mintage of under 5,000,000, I'm pretty happy to find a shiny one.

I also found 21 American nickels (including a 2005-D Buffalo commemorative, I really like the Westward Journey series), 48 2013 nickels (I'm trying to save new ones - there were also 2 that had already circulated to XF or worse, so I didn't keep them), and this pile of nickel.

Off to buy a box of nickels and check the coinstar on the way there, Man I love Mondays

I have all the commemorative quarters except a couple 1999s - I started hunting after Tecumseh and Brock, so it was hard to find great examples of them, but when de Salaberry came out I just kept the first couple I found and took the better one before it could circulate.

As for State Quarters - in Alberta, I'm cursed by the D-mints. About 70% of my American finds are from Denver!! Gaaah! I think I have more than half the states so far, but I've been keeping them since I was a kid.

My best American find is this beautiful 2013 White Mountain-D quarter, but it was pulled from a bowl of change at a fundraiser, not hunted (don't worry, I replaced it, and knew the organizers personally):

Bank called today. They have 6 bags of pennies waiting for me. Can't wait to pick them up tomorrow. (1 bag = 1 box give or take) I'll keep you guys posted on what I find.

Picked up 7 bags and 37 rolls today (close to 20k pennies). Went through 1 bag and 27 rolls today. Didn't find anything too great, some George VI's, 4 wheat cents. Found one penny with interesting toning - blue on one side and kind of a dark pink on the other. Adding substantially to the copper stash.

Most banks (almost all) will not give out pennies. I'm not sure why this particular bank doesn't mind giving them out. It's not just one person though. On my last pickup I was chatting with two of the tellers and the bank manager about coin collecting. Telling them about different key dates and varieties to look for in their change. What makes it even better is there seems to be some kind of charity going on where people bring in bags of pennies as charitable donations (hence why I was able to get so many).