How Many American Collectors Of Canadian Coins Out There ?

Was easy for me to get involved in Canadian Coins. I live in SE Michigan, Open a roll of cents here and you will get 2-3 Canadian Cents. I used to keep them but now just toss em back into circulation. Nickels, Dimes etc.. you only see 1-2 a roll here. Why? I dunno. but thats my story and I am sticking to it. Ok, now with that out of hte way.. Anyone got a 1858 laying around. last one I need to finish my set back to 58.. ; )

I live very close to the US/Mexico border, asn jist 60 muiles East of Los Angeles, CA. So you know the chance of finding Canadian coins is nearly impossible. I search boxes of cents, and find in the last foru boxes, less than a dozen. I did find 21 rolls of the '70's, all dates, and mints, which surprised me, because they have always been very hard to locate. could be the economy.
Now, the reason I got started.... I always save any non-US coins, so I already had a ferw. not eniough for a set, or even a stearer type set. I did find out my son was selling on ebay, and had a listing od 1800 small cents, from 1937 on, and when it didn't sell, I thought I would take them, and see what I could do with them. needless to say, I have bought a whole lot more, since. BTW, the batch mty son was selling had 2500 coins! I have PL sets, and Maple Leafs, large cemnts, (whish is what I am working on at present. Also are several folders of small cents, some which are full, and others witha coin or a few missing iin the mid '20;'s. Those are the hard to find ones. I had to strtart putting the coins in tubes, because they add up pretty dast! My Us cents will never be "finished, due to the ones that are so rare, and hifgh priced, that I have completed all but the '09-S VDB, in acouple of them. others lack more,as the filling gets more scarce. Not to be ignored, is my IHC folders. I thint there aere 15, or 16 of them, and they lack a lot of dates. That is becauise I fill them with the dates that happen to show. I have my Canadian collection in 3-ring binders, and in flips 20-to a page. That way I can "show, and tell" much easier. Tjhere are many varietiers, and due to the fact that I collect the Lincoln Cent varieties, it follows that the Canadian will also be treated the same way. I have a friend who is very knowledgable in this, and he has helped me. It also goes without saying a good reference of varieties helps, immensely. There is a source of varieties, that I was given, and refer to very often. Unless I am mistaken, it is by one of the members, who posted on this thread, Dan. If it is the same one, you will recognize the name, "Bill", USCG Retired. Please excuse the extra letters, and also the ones that just don't seem to belong. I am legally blind, and don;t have frontal focus, so I don't see what is typed, until I try to proof-read. Some times I can correct most, but there times when it is best to just leave it alone!
I am not a typist, so please bear with me!
Dick

Well I got into Canadian cents by the way of roll seraching. When I was working on my circulating Lincoln set I would get anywhere from 8 to 30 canadian cents per box of cents that I searched. The through some friend I got that helped me one from Micigan and another from Canada. I got a circulated date set from 1940 to present. I have a few from the 20's and 30's. I have alot of the newer varites from 1998 on but not all of them. During that same time period I started collecting the Canadian 2 dollar coin. I am working a US small FRN district set from 1928 to present. I Like the 2 denomanation weather to be on bank notes or coins, also working on a world bank note 2 denomination set.

Oddly enough, I collect US nickels religiously but probably don't have a buck in change of Canadian nickels save those in mint sets. Yet I still like those beavers. I do have some silver dollars and large copper coins.
If it weren't for trying to keep up with US coins, I would like to collect Canadian first Australia second and UK third.

Seems like a lot of us Americans started on Canadians the same way.I live in the st. Louis area so I can't explain why I so many down here.I will tell this, the banks down here will sell them to you when you buy rolls or boxes from them but refuse to buy them back when you try to get rid of your extras,

I collect Canadian coins because IMHO, they are just classier looking than modern U.S. coins. I'm sick of looking at dead corrupt presidents and their memorials we built to worship them on my coins.

Living in SE MI, I have no problem finding them in circulation, so it has been easy to acquire them.

I hoard The copper Canadian pennies instead of the inferior U.S. copper penny.

I'm from Indiana, USA. I collect world coins. Some of my favorite Canadian coins are these three. I have around 200 Canadian coins. Not bad Eh?

I really like George VI on that Newfoundland coin. Nice coins there Jaymon. Not bad at all!

Cheers from up north!