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Valued Member
Canada
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Can you "buy" 50 cent coins from the bank? How about by the box?
I've never actually seen a Canadian 50 cent coin before.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1554 Posts |
 I know you can buy 'em from the bank by the roll, however, by the box, I'm not sure? I supposed you'd have to ask Aunt Jemima, she's the only thing you can buy by the box lately!  Glenn |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've never actually seen a Canadian 50 cent coin before. Haha, I actually have a few, and I'm stateside!  I bet you can. Just go to a slightly larger bank and ask for a box. If they tell you they don't have one, ask them to go check in the back. I'm sure you'll get one (just be a customer of the bank and go to a slightly larger one) .... so ..... looking for silvers? |
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Valued Member
 Canada
159 Posts |
Yeah, I've never seen a 50 cent coin, but I REALLY want to see a Silver 50 cent coin. I don't think its easy to find silver 50 cent pieces in Canada, just because it's not a mass circulated coin. Seems like, in the states, 50 cent coins are more commonly circulated. I guess I have to buy some rolls and see what the deal is, or at least keep a few 50 cent coins for my own collection... just so I can say, "Been there, done that, I got the coin".  I have a 50 cent American coin, no idea how or when I got it, just found it in my change jar.  Edited by Coinage
12/28/2008 07:18 am
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Valued Member
Canada
159 Posts |
Are the 50 Cent coins still being produced? 2008 50-cent coins?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1472 Posts |
You have to buy 50 cent pieces directly from the mint or from coin dealers.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Coinage... you won't find silver .50 cents in circulation, actually, you will find it hard to find any .50 cent in circulation.  If, you ask at your bank, they may have some in the back of their vault, they would probably sell you. I picked up quite a few nickel .50 cents from my bank about 6 months ago. |
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Valued Member
Canada
122 Posts |
I've been to two banks and they told me they didn't have any 50 cent coins :(
And I have seen them in circulation, someone used one to pay for their purchase at a dollar store I was in once.
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New Member
Canada
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Here is a pic of mine, since you never saw one:)  |
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Valued Member
Canada
159 Posts |
nice coin. I wonder why it never really became main stream.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1082 Posts |
A couple of reasons, both based on wrong perceptions:
(1) A mistaken belief that 50 Cent pieces are "rare". If you tender one at a purchase in a store, what happens to it? Usually the till person who receives it will buy it and put it away at home.
(2) The previous school of thought that they are too heavy/big to use conveniently. Of course, with the loonie and toonie in circulation, this has proven to be false, but the time of the coin having any real usefulness as a circulation coin has passed.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1000 Posts |
Here's another one for your viewing pleasure...  |
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Valued Member
Canada
159 Posts |
Marq, nice picture! Wow, unicorns on Canadian coins!
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Valued Member
Canada
159 Posts |
what a coincidence! My girlfriend and I are planning on moving and while I was going through my book closet I found a 2002- 50 cent coin in a small zip-lock bag. My g/f was telling me that she got it from a friend from work. This coin is in great condition and has its original luster on both sides of the coin.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The 50-cent coins are no longer produced for circulation, so as stated above, you will need to purchase direct from the mint, or from a dealer. From time to time, however, banks will get a few and I've found that they are very happy to part with them. It is pretty rare to find them, even in the banks, though, but keep trying, make friends with a teller, and he/she will likely hold onto them for you.
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New Member
Canada
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It's interesting that you say that banks are very happy to part with them, I say this because I recently went to a bank and the teller refused to sell me one of the 50-cent coins they had on hand.
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Posted 12/28/2008 04:24 am
