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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Just wondering. With our dollar near parity once more, it could happen!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
785 Posts |
It could be possible, a week or so ago a read that a meamber found a silver Three Cent piece in their change. I guess anything is possible... |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1192 Posts |
I haven't found any in a roll. But I've put a few in rolls :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
965 Posts |
I plan on spending a few 2013 sacagaweas when I visit this summer  |
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Valued Member
Canada
306 Posts |
Never in a roll but than again the only loonie rolls I open are at work. I did have someone pay with one at work though.
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Valued Member
Canada
220 Posts |
I've found one, a 2006, about a year ago. I don't search dollar rolls, but we go through a lot of change at work and I search all the rolls that are headed to the cash registers.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
997 Posts |
I hear Islander2010 found one, a 2006 about a year ago...
Anyway... Do American dollar coins work in vending machines in Canada?
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
2805 Posts |
They should - the loonie was actually made SBA-sized because all of our vending machines are made in America and it was easier to have just one size of dollar. I don't know if discrimination systems have improved since then (the loonie has 11 actual sides while the SBA is round with a stylistic 11 sides), but they should work. I think an easy test is to put in an old and new style of loonie. More sensitive machines that haven't been upgraded yet will spit out the new loonie, and these may not take American small dollars. Machines that happily accept both should be more likely to take an American dollar. |
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Valued Member
Canada
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I've never tried to use an American dollar in a local Canadian vending machine, challenge accepted! :-)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
621 Posts |
I live in the upper Midwest usa and figured you guys might be interested in the opposite too, American rolls with loonies in them. I found 2 Canadian dollars in $120 of American dollar coins I looked through from the bank once. always nice to find a Canadian coin imo, they are all keepers to me. I'm so jealous you guys have rolls and rolls of them up there and all you have to do is go to the bank to get them. canadian nickels and pennies aren't too uncommon in rolls but its been ages since I've seen a Canadian quarter or half down here in a roll.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
548 Posts |
Many Canadians would have no idea what a Canadian half-dollar coin looked like.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2805 Posts |
How would you get a half in an American roll anyway? Ours used to scale like American coins (e.g. a half is 5x bigger than a dime and 2x bigger than a quarter), but they were downsized during the change to nickel and so finding silver halves in our rolls is completely impossible. You'd only find one in an American roll out of outright fraud.
That being said, I've been working on getting the half circulating. I might make a thread if there's enough interest and enough expendable nickel halves around here :U
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I mean, it wouldn't fit into bank rolling machines, right?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
965 Posts |
I'll guess he probably meant the old silver halves.
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