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Living in the Southeastern part of the Mitt, (Michigan for those that may not Know) All my life we have gotten in change Canadian coinage. It wasn't a problem till the exchange rates changed and it it dropped in value. Then the stores started posting signs @ the registers NO CANADIAN ACCEPTED! But if you didn't watch em close they had no problem slipping you some in your change!
In the early 70's with the influx of foreign nationals from one geographic region buying and running gas stations and party stores. They started a scam that a lot of store keepers, soon followed They would drive over to Windsor and when it was $125.00 Cd or better for $100.00USD they would get a couple of thousand in change. Bring it back and then slip a coin or two in with EVERYBODY's change. It got real bad when one local station would give back .97ยข Canadian , when the bill was $1.03
But I have noticed that lately, in addition to the Canadian I have gotten, copper looking coins from Bermuda, Bahamas, Mexico and a shilling coin a long with others form parts unknown. They look like cents,nickles, dimes and quarters.
A quick glance when getting your change and then a dump in the pocket, I don't find out till I go through the stash a couple of weeks later.
I am wondering if any others, have noticed an up turn in the foreign money being slide in to our monetary flow.
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I notice some Canadian in my change and once in awhile a foreign coin in rolls of cents that I search through but not much else. John1  |
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United States
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I don't see many but I sure liked this one...  ...   Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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04/09/2013 11:15 am
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United States
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I get some from our post office. The tellers will save it for me. I like in a large college town and the students pass foreign coins all the time. Some of them are pretty cool. Got enough different countries that my grandson was able to fill one of the requirements for is Boy Scout merit badge.
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Canada
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South Korean 100 Won, the exact size of a Canadian quarter but only 9 cents in face value. Didn't fool a vending machine but would definitely slip by a cashier (or fit nicely in a quarter roll where I found it). Almost certainly been used for evil.
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I love getting odd things in change. I have found Euros, Mexican, Chinese, Austrailian, Indian, Russian, French,.. tons of them.
Its always neat to see what is used in other countries.
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I found a 2007 One Dirham from United Arab Emirates the other day. It was in the till at work and is the same size as our 10c coin, just little ticker. At the same time a found a New Zealand 10c coin, but that's not uncommon here in Aus. Steve  |
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These are strictly, from pocket change in the Detroit area of SE Mich. The biggest reason I think most are in great condition is some of the gas station and party store owners drive to Canada when the exchange rate is in the favor of more Canadian coins for the US dollar. Most are happy to slip one coin in at a time to change. I love that the Canadians change their coinage often. And have some real nice looking coins. I loved the colored inserts on the quarters, the oldest one that I can find this morning are the copper penny 1930, the silver penny 1932, and the nickle 1953. I may have some older pennies as I have a cigar box half full. Just did a quick look, and found the 1922 sitting on top of the pile waiting for me to find it!   |
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Nice little collection of Canadian coins you have accumulated. I,too, live in Michigan and commonly get Canadian coinage back in change. I do not mind it at all though. I like the variety. Just the collector in me I guess
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That sure is a healthy pile of coins.
In the Minneapolis area I have been finding about 2 Canadian cents for each wheat that I find. In the last year or so I have accumulated about a quart jar full of mixed denominations.
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Nice collection circus  Quote:
Nice little collection of Canadian coins you have accumulated. I,too, live in Michigan and commonly get Canadian coinage back in change. I do not mind it at all though. I like the variety. Just the collector in me I guess I love getting canadian coins from circulation, I too have a small hoard. Strangely, I have a REALLY hard time finding canadian quarters, but pennies and nickels are very common. Another anomaly, the only plated steel canadian I've found is a 2011 cent.  |
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Canada
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Circus, you've got a couple prizes there! The 1922 penny is a low mintage year, and you might want to investigate that 1932 "silver" penny a bit closer, as only copper pennies were made back then. Quite possibly it has been plated. In looking through my change for around 40 years, I have never found any pre-1937 Canadian pennies here in Saskatchewan, so you are doing great! I do remember getting lots of US wheats when I was a kid; the oldest coin that I ever got in my own change is still a 1910 wheatie which I got around 35 years ago.
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I find that you're more likely to find old foreign coins than old domestic coins, because if someone is willing to let a Canadian penny pass, they'll probably overlook an old Canadian penny (unlike a Wheat cent, which they're more likely to know about). Case in point: I've found a dozen wheat pennies in my ongoing penny hoarding (including a not-rusted steel cent), but none of the old Canadian style that you have more than one of. Ouch. Maybe we should arrange a transnational swap meet. |
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The coolest looking foreign coin was found in a roll of pennie. The coin is actually a little bit smaller than our penny, so it immediately stood out in the roll. It cames from Hong Kong and was minted in 1973, has a picture of a young Queen Lib on the obverse. It also has scalloped edges, appears to me to be copper, and shows a value of Twenty Cents. Which is really the most unusual coin value that I have come accross in my collecting history including our 2 or 3 cent nickle pieces. It is truely a strange looking coin. It also has four chinese charactures on its revers. |
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Well that cigar box of maple leaf backed pennies called my name all afternoon while trying to finish up the income taxes for us and my mother! Well after I finished the taxes, I just gave into the siren's call of the oldest date in the box. The oldest coins were two 1939's  Then has anybody sorting a hoard found one decade shows up more than others?  This is what I found in this cigar box hoard, A pretty nice haul before rolling em up and now the question becomes with the neighbors to the north taking the coppers out of circulation. Guess I should label and hold em for a while  is the rest of the coins along with two wheaties |
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United States
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When I began collecting in 1969 in upstate New York, it was not unusual to encounter Canadian coins in change, in the same channels you would receive American coins. There was one major difference, with Canada silver coinage having ended in 1968, silver Canadian 10-cent and 25-cent coins were common. I acquired quite a haul from circulation through the early 1970s and have kept them all. I also encountered Canadian small cents all the way back to 1920, even having found a 1940 Newfoundland cent!
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