Canadian Coin Collectors - How Specialized Are You?

I live outside of Philly in the US. I started out at my Grandparents' feet filling holes in blue Whitman folders with U.S. cents and nickels, and eventually expanded to more denominations & series over time.

Based on finding a few Canadian cents in pocket change at the time, I soon also expanded into Canadian coins - - adding series & denominations as I found them and/or empty Whitman folders at local coin shops.

Over time, I branched out to Canadian large cents, small cents, silver & nickel 5-cents, dimes, quarters, halves, dollars, and Loonies/Twoonies, not to mention Newfoundland/Maritime issues and Canadian type set folders.

As with my U.S., most of my Canadian collection runs from the mid-to-late 1800's thru today. And it consists almost entirely of circulating issues. I have next to nothing in the way of proof coins, preferring instead coins with a history of people having actually used them. As a result, while it is a satisfying collection, it'll never make me independently wealthy. It's just a fun hobby. I've made an exception since I started collecting to go after the shiniest, least-circulated examples I can find each year going-forward, so my recent folders are much brighter. But those older folders are filled with coins of all colors/grades as I found or traded for them.

Based on my philosophy, I've never gone after any NCLT's, etc. And these days, with all the special & colorized RCM circulating issues, I'm having a tough enough time as-is just staying current with those!

My boys & I are now pretty much to the point where we still have holes in our collections for key & semi-key dates, and never anticipate getting them. So we are left just trying to keep up with each year's current circulating releases.

We're still missing most of nickels thru Twoonies for 2019 thru 2021 at this point, and would love to connect with someone either North of the Border or with access to their coins who is looking for either something similar in the way of U.S. or Darkside coins, to develop a steady yearly swap/sale to stay current. We usually need 2 or 3 each of most releases for each denomination.

I also have a decent number of extras of older coins from all over available for trade as well, in case I can help a partner out that way. The only things I don't have available to trade is silver or gold - - as I have either traded away any extras for needed dates, or never got into collecting them (gold) in the first place.

So if there's anyone out there who might be interested in swapping/selling each year, please get in touch with me!

Thanks!

-- Dave

My lover is 50 cents US and Canada and Canada 1935 banknotes series. Almost complete.