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Full of nickels! I mentioned some time ago that it had been many years since I coin roll hunted. I used to do pennies mostly, but since those aren't easy to come by here, nickels would likely be best - so she surprised me with half a box of nickels. "They're heavy," she said, after admitting to dropping them and having one bust open!  I've done the preliminary search, nothing terribly exciting yet - lots of pre '82, the oldest being a couple of '56s. I did spot what appears to be a 1996 far 6 - which is cool. I was shorted six nickels but did find a dime, so essentially five nickels. Now to examine them all more closely...  |
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I asked my parents for a box of nickels for Christmas. A.R.P. hasn't hit too hard here yet, eh? Do you keep all pre '82 as a form of bullion?
I have a few hundred dollars in nickels shorted in muffin tins by year waiting to get a good louping over.
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That is more Canadian nickels in one place than I have ever seen in my entire life. I would probably have to get a folder If I had that many. Right Now I have about 2 dozen. Is it weird to drool over something like that since you see them on a daily basis?
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I do try to keep the pure nickel nickels when I spot them, but will do better now (I think there were 110 in this group). I have a lot upstairs that I've pulled over the years that still need to be better examined too.
shadz, I don't see too many rolls of US nickels coins, so no it's not weird lol. I did find 32 American nickels in this batch though - we're pretty near the border.
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If they wouldnt get lost in the mail I would trade you some US 50s nickels for some Canadians! Why aren't there any places that jsut trades circulating coinage from other countries?
Seriously, someone should set up a website and trade them without consideration for "economic value", but a 5-cent piece for a 5 cent piece. I would send someone or an intermediary a nickel for a 5 yen coin! Quarter for one of them painted Canadian maple leaf quarters, I would do that too. foreign coins are always more interesting than local coins because.. well they are new ideas for designs. Those beavers you got.. I just really like then better than Monti and Jefferson!
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shadz, I don't think you'll be very happy to trade a US$ 1000 with Rp 1000. Just saying that some currencies have an insane number of zeroes and cent values are worth nothing.
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not currencies, coins. I would give the same number of zeroes in coins for it if it was a coin. Rp 1000, whatever that is, I would give 1000 cents for. that is 20 rolls of pennies.
you think I wouldnt give $5 for 5 pounds sterling?
Also it would depend on how interesting it is. I get pesos and other things like the fils and millim in boxes of coins and have no idea what it is worth but if shaped and sized like a US nickel, I figure I paid a nickel for a coin to add to my collection, and for foreign money, that is worth it to me.
Did I make or lose money getting the 100 kuwait fils instead of a quarter? I have no idea, but I got a new coin from a new country!
If someone were to make a website for doing something like that, I would assume they would be smart enough to know what they are doing, and knowing 1USD = 120 Japan Yen; I would still give 1 cent for a 1 yen coin, 5 cents for a 5 yen coin, $1 for a 100 yen coin. All because they are interesting to me and I don't collect to make a profit. I already know I have made losses, and that is just from boxes of halves being short!
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Hey shadz,those colourizied maple leaf coins are called war of 1812 commemorative quarters. I can probably find an AU-50 example for you if you want to send me an old silver Rosie. Send me a pm if interested.
And slur has a point, who wants to trade me a silver eagle for my loonie?
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I have a $5 Maple leaf that I would trade for a US 1/2 Eagle. Anyone...Anyone...?  |
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See that is just being greedy. I didn't say a Ryu gold bar for a $1 coin.... I am talking current coinage. Whatever Yen coin was issued this year I would give any common cent I could lay my hands on in trade for it. even a 58 wheat. (Those seem to be breeding in my collection because I keep checking and find more than I thought I had. Might need to do a good sort through all the wheats to prevent that!)
I didn't even know Canada had a $5 coin...was it a circulation coin or one of those special ones like bullion buffalo or Silver Eagle?
I am being more serious here that If I were to send, and be able to do so, chegur a roll of random US nickel for a roll of random Canada nickels. collectors type of trades, not speculator kind of trades. But of course, since 2006, I couldn't do that.
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12/09/2014 5:26 pm
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The $5 coin is a SML (silver maple leaf) and is the equivalent to your ASE. I was joking and know what you are saying. What you are describing is CCF. If I have an old nickel commemorative or a centennial nickel I could send it to you for a War Nickel or an old nickel in general. Lots of people do that on here. Start a want list or poke around the world coin forums. |
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The problem with trading Internationally and even within Canada with heavy items, is the cost of shipping here. Anyone know the cost of sending a roll or more to the US? Sure wish we had those cheap flat rate boxes you guys do.
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I did find 32 American nickels in this batch though - we're pretty near the border. Anything interesting there? |
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I didn't spot anything, but haven't looked closely yet - still going through the Canadian. I did see a 2014 and was surprised at seeing the current year up here.
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What you are describing is CCF. Not exactly. I mean if chequer wanted more US nickels and the 2006 law didnt exist to trade, he could just send some Canadian nickels to some place and exchange for some US nickels. The website runs the trades, not just places trading between themselves. Like say you have a coin club, maybe this is how they work I dont know; and people just put coins into boxes and take out a coin from another box in exchange that they want. I drop a US nickel into its box, and go to the box with a Canadian nickel chequer dropped in and its done, but the website has the boxes, and sends things and accepts them from people. The website is the intermediary, and just sends something random when asked for a US nickel to someone looking for a US nickel. Like foreign exchange but without the conversion rate nonsense for people who don't care that they are giving a 1/100 of a USD for 1/120 of a US dollar by trading a US penny for a Japan 1 yen coin. If a roll is sent in of US nickels, then someone send a roll of 5 yen coins (or 40 in an envelop, whatever) then they are traded as that. coin for coin, denomination for denomination, but the website is the go between. For people that don't have coin clubs or dont have access to foreign coins but want them without having to pay places like Littleton $40 for 50 common current coins from non-US countries. Getting a 2 euro cent coin would be 2 US cents worth because of denomination, even though they can appear in a roll of US pennies in place of 1 penny.
@chequer: Do you plan to make a little folder or album of US nickels you find? Like the Canada pennies I have found I got a folder for to put in even BEFORE I knew they were going extinct, just because I found so many and to help sort them. Haven't got but about a dozen nickels yet from Canada so haven't needed to get a folder for them, but probably will when there is enough to make it less hard to fill the remaining holes. Edited by shadz
12/11/2014 3:20 pm
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