Roll Searched Us- What To Do With The Canadian?

I am making a set of each denomination of canadian coins living in Buffalo NY
I don't know how many people would trade silver for canadian
I'm sure some people would
people get excited and count canadian coins in their weekly or box finds
I get so many I dont
I search them for what I want or need and roll them when I have enough, return them to the bank telling them they are canadian. Easy enough for me
put a trade add on here and see if anyone is interested, worth a shot. When you get 250 posts that is

Of course the person swapping their silver for UK, Euro, or Canadian coin would either be going there on a trip or have family that lived there.
For example I have 20 pound in coin, how many silver mercs would someone swap for that? If you were going to the UK in the future, this is a great swap as the pound dominates the US dollar.
What is a fair conversion however?

I hoard the copper pennies, nickel nickels and silver dimes and quarters. I dump the zinc and cupro nickel at TCF.

The plated steel coins, and the nickel dimes and quarters I roll and save as a currency hedge against the doomed U.S. dollar.

I have over $400 in Canadian coins, from the cent through the Toonie, the bulk of them dimes. One of these days I'll visit Windsor and open a bank account and dump all the coins.

I know some Canadian banks will let U.S. citizens open an account. I just haven't looked into it that much yet.

And yes, Canadian coinage is much classier looking than our current third world banana republic looking junk.

Bowfin, Have you tried the Windsor casino? they might be able to change the change for free to US dollars.

gotcha. but if they take change they should be able to convert the coins to Canada dollars at least for free that is.

I get about 100 canadian dimes or more per every $1k in US searched. I spend 'em when the counter spits 'em out, or if I re-roll, they go right back in.

I'm not sure what its like in the US but here dealers charge a ridiculous premium for American coins which is why most Canadians do what has been suggested above, collect what we find in our change. Our coins are cheap for us, early 1900s large cents are like a buck a piece here in very nice condition but on your side of the border that price goes up significantly to like 5-10, shield pennies there are cheap here, they are 5$. That leaves us the choice of high prices, pocket change or ebay. I would suggest you talk to some of the Canadian collectors if you want to make sets of our circulating coins and do exchanges ... some of ours that you need for some of yours that we need. I am sure lots of collectors would be interested in trading circulated coins with you, I know I would ... and I agree with one of the above posted comments, we do have some interesting coinage here in the great white north, alot of it you never get to see down there except at dealers and ebay. I for one hate paying more than a coin is worth just to have it which usually means I go without. Trade, trade trade ... its a good way to make sets :)