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Valued Member
United States
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I used the coin counter there and it printed a slip. I brought it up to the counter and as the teller was getting my change he told me it would be a second because he had to open pennies. He opened them on the counter and obviously I was creepin on what was in the roll. While he was counting them all, he moved one to the side. I asked him if he did it because it was a wheatie or another interesting find and he told me it was Canadian. I am from northern Minnesota, we used to take Canadian the same as US so seeing Canadian change makes me nostalgia pretty hard. I asked him if I could have it with my change and he said "Do you really want it? It's kind of useless. We just throw them away."
I wonder if any Canadian banks have gotten a 1909 VDB or another valuable coin and threw it away. Have any of you heard of banks, or even other people throwing away coins? It frustrates me to no end thinking of all the interesting coins that could be gone forever because of it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If we get foreign, the customer has to either take it back, or else we throw it away.
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 United States
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Really? That's so surprising to me. Are you allowed to take it?
It was in one of those plastic wrapped rolls. I always wonder how they get mixed in because the bank I drop change off at doesn't even take customer rolls, you have to use the machine. I still need to research how banks go about things obviously. Haha.
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United States
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I dropped off about $800 in state quaternary I rolled. She gave me my paper and stereo filling her drawer with some of them and the others she put in a big plastic bag with a built in handel. I asked "don't you send those off to brinks or HQ and she said most times they just pass them out to the tellers... not exactly what you asked but a tale to be told  |
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I live in Maine and Canadian change (quarters, dimes, nickels, cents) is just passed around at face value. Even at the banks I use their change trays have Canadian just mixed in with U.S.
However, it's a little more difficult for us to get rid of Canadian $1 and $2. I work at a restaurant and have gotten a good amount of these as tips from foreign tourists. Stores wont accept these as tender and banks wont take them either because the conversion is a pain and shipping them all back to Canada costs them too much money.
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others she put in a big plastic bag with a built in handel. with a built in handle |
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United States
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While roll hunting, I once paid for some dimes and in my payment were a few Canadian dimes. I ducked as one of my tellers, which I've known for years, attempted to throw them back at me - I thought she was joking but she almost became upset!
I get about 10% Canadians in my US dimes and was searching $20K - $25K per year, so the Canadians add up. I would roll them up mixed with US and cash them in that way, as the coin counter would spit them out, and the tellers never counted individual coins in my rolls (which might total between $300 - $1k at a time. No banks here will knowingly accept foreign coin, except the CU that my wife worked at, well, she was the vault teller.
On a side note, I did find close to 200 silver Canadians while roll hunting.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Posted 06/13/2015 10:47 am
