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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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i dont think you will find any rolls you are asking about especially with a 1925 in the middle,...i do have a number of 1979 rolls on ebay that are unsearched and 1979 does have a good amount of varieties to search for other than that I think it is pretty rare to find any from the 50's or back |
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Canada
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If you are really, REALLY lucky, when you ask for pennies at a bank located in a small settlement, chances are that you will get some genuine unsearched rolls from before 1960. Coins in many of the small settlements stay in the bank safes for decades until a coin collector comes by to clear their safes.
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United States
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I find it odd that there are so many Wheat cent rolls on ebay but very few mixed Canadian cent rolls. |
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Canada
1489 Posts |
It is probably due to cost of shipping, dimensions and weight make shipping in Canada rediculously expensive.
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Canada
1747 Posts |
Also the number of collectors in the USA is not proportional to north of the border. in most figures, people figure 10x if there are 1000 collectors in Canada there would be 10,000 in the USA. (because of the population base is roughly 10x greater than in Canada)
I believe that this ratio does not transfer into the numismatics area, I believe it is more like 1000 : 1 or higher in favor of the USA
Not to mention the sheer # of wheat cents minted compared to that of the penny.
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United States
4863 Posts |
When I used to roll hunt $25 penny boxes from the bank I'd find about 80-90+ Canadian cents in there.
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United States
1101 Posts |
I'm heading through Toronto and them Montreal over July 4th weekend. I can pick up some rolls from a bank if you're interested. Let me know.
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Valued Member
Canada
372 Posts |
With the recovery program from the Mint in Canada,the banks are not allowed to send the pennies back into circulation. They have to send them to the Mint to be melted. Good luck to get them there.
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United States
1101 Posts |
Ah, interesting cdcoinman. Thanks for the information. Heading through there to hike Mt. Washington in NH and I'll see what I can grab along the way.
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Canada
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Up to probably the 1970's, the mint only distributed coins through the major banks, there were maybe 3 in each main city, then the coins made their way to smaller branches and towns. Not many stayed around in bank safes; they got used. The only place there would be any now would be if some old geezer like me got them at a bank back then, and is holding them. I only managed some in the 70's and roll-searched from 1970 to 90ish. Anyone collector who had such rolls has opened them looking for the gems and sells them one at a time on ebay. |
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Canada
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While on the subject of unresearched rolls in Canada, I would be very interested in hearing opinion, especially from geezers, on how fast the ARP train is chugging? That is, among those of you who are (still)roll hunting, have you noticed the "progress" of the removal from circulation of older un-plated or non-magnetic coinage? (pre 2001). For myself, I only recently became fascinated in the non-lint contents of my pockets, so I'm of no use yet. Unless someone needs to know about lint, of course. That said, it is evident to me that all the vac-formed plastic rolls, wherever one finds them, have been sent for processing. So only the paper stuff has any chance of ARP survival. But the percentage of old coins in that paper roll over time of ARP is what is gnawin' at me.
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Canada
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I guess the clear plastic vac rolls are the exact opposite of "old bank penny rolls." If the plastic are increasingly common, then, at some point, even the "old paper" will always contain primarily ARPed coinage. For anyone other than myself who may be interested in these "old" rolls of prearp coins--not exclusively pennies-- from banks, I have noticed that some banks have both. But if what you want are coloureds, then you will have a higher probability of finding them in the arp rolls.
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Valued Member
United States
127 Posts |
This may be a silly question: What should I do with my Canadian pennies ? I live in New Hampshire and I have accumulated a couple hundred.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
5460 Posts |
NH collector: Save them and come across the border and spend or meet a CDN collector somewhere N of the border and have him/her buy them. I used to live in Dover for 2 years with a ship out of Portsmouth.
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Canada
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yes very hard to find these if there are any around
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