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My Canadian Small Cents Collection. On A Budget

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 Posted 08/14/2025  10:18 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Humanist1287 to your friends list
Thank you. Nah, I'm good. I'll stick to a date set personally. I might get the 2 from 2012, but that's probably it.

The only thing I might be interested in is purchasing some of the older, pre-37 older style small cents. Is there a name for them, though?

Because obviously, despite both being Canadian small cents, both the reverse and obverse are different. I much prefer the standard reverse from 37 to 2012.
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 Posted 08/14/2025  10:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Phil310 to your friends list
Nice set!

I have always liked the Canadian cents. I had most of them from putting together a set like yours back in the 1970's. They sat in storage for decades until 2012 when Canada discontinued the cent coin. So I decided to "finish" my set. I got all the dates, and then noticed the varieties. So I got those. Then I thought "why not do the large cents too?". Most of them weren't very expensive after all. To make a very long story short, I collect them all now: Small and large, by date, mint mark, variety, die pairs and die states. I have enjoyed the coins, and even more the friendships of fellow collectors.

Seeing your set bring back some fond memories of my collecting journey. If you would like a few earlier cents, message me and I'll send you a few to meditate on.



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 Posted 08/14/2025  12:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list

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You may want to consider looking at the ones with 2 or more coins in a year...
This has been on my long list for a long time.
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 Posted 08/14/2025  11:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list
Nice set!
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 Posted 08/15/2025  05:15 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nickelsearcher to your friends list
Nice looking set so far.
Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art
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 Posted 08/15/2025  12:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Maine Member to your friends list
WTG Humanist1287. Nice start. I did the same in the 1970's when I found a 1923 Canadian Cent in circulation. I was really into Lincolns at the time, but that find gave me the bug, and I completed the set through circulation finds, much like yourself.
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 Posted 08/15/2025  4:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marv65 to your friends list
Nice! I always liked old Canadian small cents.
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 Posted 08/15/2025  4:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hfjacinto to your friends list
Humanist, you are following in my footsteps :) I did the small cents and then got bullied into doing the large cents. Good luck.

Here are my 2 sets.

Small Cents
https://goccf.com/t/366497

Large Cents
https://goccf.com/t/368817
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 Posted 08/15/2025  5:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chipjones to your friends list
If you want send me a email with a list of the ones you need.
My set is done and I have some extras.
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 Posted 08/15/2025  8:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add triggersmob to your friends list
I am a big fan of the Canada 1 cent coins too. Thanks mostly to McShilling and Loonie, I have managed to put together a nearly complete set of the small cents. I'm missing 6 of the KM#28 coins (mostly the low mintage one), both 2006P (one of which is very rare), 2007 KM#490,



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 Posted 08/16/2025  10:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mcshilling to your friends list
Hi trigg, check your email
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 Posted 08/16/2025  10:25 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add triggersmob to your friends list
Thanks Mike. I checked the link. Minimum postage is $120, so I don't think I'll buy from that website.
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 Posted 08/16/2025  12:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mestephil to your friends list
That's a nice collection. Congrats!

I lived for 13 years less than 10 miles from the Canadian border in East Aurora, NY. On weekends, folks from Ontario would come down to shop at the Vidlers 5 & dime store, so it was very common to receive Canadian cents in change whenever I shopped in the village. Now I wish I had kept them all.
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 Posted 08/16/2025  7:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DoctorBurnzy to your friends list
Well done. Congrats!
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 Posted 08/17/2025  10:20 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add denny7000 to your friends list
Keep at it humanist1287, I'm sure you can complete your set. It's the thrill of the hunt!
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