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Valued Member
Canada
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What I did to help to see if I receive the same box, is on each roll, I put a small letter a on each roll. Try to put it in the same area on the roll, so if you get a box, open it up, you can tell by just pulling out the rolls and see if your names first letter is on each roll. May not be totally like-able at the bank, but is a good way to see if you are getting the same rolls back. Keep the letter small and inconspicuous. About the 1 and 2 dots, they are at the ends of the horizontal lines of dots in the poppies. I am still trying to get pics, but running into a jam.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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Maybe you cam find some photos online and just link to them if you have trouble uploading imags. Or email the images to someone here who can upload them for you? Whatever. I'm not pressuring you at all so I hope you don't feel pushed  Thats a good idea with the small marks. I was thinking of something obvious, like dabbing a colored dot with a bingo dabber on them. Pretty conspicious though and you're right, I don't want to irk my bank people |
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Canada
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I wonder if our Canadian banks work same as US ones as to what might come in boxes. My teller guy commented I'd probably get all newer cents, but he didn't really know either. He was just guessing. I don't know where they order the coins from, but I assume each Province has a central place in that Province to order coins from. If so, wouldn't they get all the returned coins from businesses or banks and then just recycle them back in boxes and rolls to businesses and banks? I'm not sure how this stuff works. I'm embarrassed I don't know!
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Valued Member
Canada
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Guys I was just wondering if the bank will take the box back? or if they have to be put in rolls, because their not gonna count 2500 cents
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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you have to give them back the way you got them.
in other words, bring out your paper rollers
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
864 Posts |
Same here, have to roll them. I imagine the same rules apply at all our banks. You can ask at your bank for the paper rollers and I think they just give them to their customers. I buy mine at the dollar store though. For a buck I buy a bag of 36 tubes that I just fill with 50 pennies each. Much easier on my hands, not to mention a whole lot quicker, to have ready made new tubes and with crisp edges that aren't previously folded that get in the way of inserting the coins. They do have those little plastic fold open ones too but they're way less for a lot more money and I find them annoying to try and fold and close them (interlocking male female parts like snaps) I always shoot my pennies across the table when I try to use them |
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Valued Member
Canada
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I have been buying $10 worth of pennies at a time, and finally broke down and got a box. They were mixed dates, dimes were fairly common - 1 per group of 10 rolls. I have had 1 US dime, and coins from Great Britain, 1 and 2 Euro Cents from France, and 1 cents from Bermuda. My oldest US coins (in rolls from Canada) were 1914D and 1919S. My oldest Canadian is a 1939 1 cent. I got 210 US Cents in 20 rolls from Canada, once. There have been many varieties- re-engraved dates, especially 1978-79, detached jewels, die-breaks, and the interesting features of the modern Canadian coins- spikes around letters, letters joined a few diebreaks on the reverse side, and usually coins from the70s that are uncirculated, or almost so. I have not yet come across the scarce 2006 pennies. It has been fun. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Thanks Coinsnpaper. That sounds good and shows you do get coins from boxes that have been circulating already so some older dates could be in the lot. It sure is fun cracking open rolls, that anticipation. I get excited to spot the first Queen, until the early 1960's, and King George's faces. I really do love those earlier images. And always get excited to spot American and any foreign or odd coin that spills out.
Congrats on those teen years US ones. My oldest Canadian cent is still the 1941. I have almost every year from 1941 to date. I look for King George especially, then first Queen faces right away, hoping!
I have a 2 Euro Cent from Italy I found too, plus a couple of badly damaged Panama/Uraguay? ones too, plus found that 1967 US dark dime
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New Member
Canada
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sorry for bumping this old thread, I have few questions on buying boxes of pennies at Canadian banks, don't they charge a fee on each roll? which bank (CIBC, TD, Royal, etc) seems to be the most lenient towards these kind of business?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
864 Posts |
I've yet to buy a box at a time but I don't think they charge fees or extras for ordering them. Maybe I'm wrong about that though? I'll be dropping into my bank on Wed, the Royal Bank of Canada, and will ask if they charge for ordering them in. I'll let you know what I find out, but I expect other Canadians will probably jump in and answer you before then :)
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Sometimes you'll get a GOOD box.I remember well,last year was one of those times.One box yielded a number of Young queen cents,a few george VI cents and one 1935 cent + 1 1909 U.S.cent+a couple of foreign coins.Another box yielded a 2006 no logo,no p magnetic cent + a couple of other goodies .This was in late 2010. NEVER GIVE UP !
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01/17/2011 8:59 pm
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Valued Member
Canada
311 Posts |
Here is true story of what happened to my daughter-in-law. She worked at a Starbucks coffee shop. She opened a roll of pennies, and saw that one coin looked different. She put a penny in and took the odd looking coin. She got a hold of me and asked what this coin was all about. I looked at it and asked where in heavens name did you get this coin? She told me the story of the penny roll,and I said that she had a "1909 American Quarter Eagle two and a half dollar gold coin." It is in excellent condition, and she asked if I could store it in my safety deposit box at the bank. Miracles do happen when penny roll and penny box hunting. I will get some photos when I am at the bank next time.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
744 Posts |
when buying american pennies....22-28% copper
70-78% zinc
5-10 wheats
canadian pennies......44-48% copper
38-45% zinc
8-12% steel
hope this helps
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Valued Member
Canada
311 Posts |
One thing I have suggested is to put a small mark on the roll, somewhere that you would know what the mark is so if you get a roll with that mark, it will help save going through the same roll twice. If you go to the thread called one dot-two dot, you will find that Castor has done a marvelous job of pointing out the two differences. take care.
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Valued Member
Canada
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I just purchased my first box of rolls this week. So far my notable finds include one US Steel penny and a 1936 George V penny(really bad corrosion damage though).
How exciting!
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