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Pillar of the Community
United States
1695 Posts |
I am finding a lot of Canadian cents and nickels in rolls, and as they accumulate I am wondering what to do with them. As I live in the USA, I am wondering what to do. I don't feel right about rolling them and returning them to a dump bank, and don't want to offend my source bank by making things more difficult, as they help me with rolls. Thoughts?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1191 Posts |
I just put them I 2x2s and in binders they go. I have accumulated a nice Canadian penny collection while doing that.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
840 Posts |
I imagine the dollar amount of money you have tied up in the foreign coins you have found and will continue to find is/will be minimal, so it's not worth rocking the boat with any of your banks. I recommend you simply keep the foreign coins as part of your coin collection. I've looked through about $5,000 worth of nickels and found only about 3 rolls of foreign coins with most being Canadian. I keep the foreign coins and have only ~$6 US tied up, so no biggie.
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Valued Member
United States
343 Posts |
I have a baggie half full of stuff from all over the world I've found in many places. I keep the square coin from aruba in my golf bag and use it as my marker.
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Moderator
 United States
188770 Posts |
I have kept all my non-US finds. Berto is correct in my case, the number of finds has been minimal in the grand scheme of what has been searched.
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Valued Member
United States
172 Posts |
I keep all of my Canada coins and anything else foreign. Who knows maybe i'll go to Canada one day  Edited by Frogman2000
04/21/2016 6:06 pm
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Valued Member
United States
381 Posts |
I also keep all of them. I have started a Canadian Album for the Nickels.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3210 Posts |
I have a neighbor who has family from Canada. I build up a small stash and she pays me back in US dollars, she gives them to her son cause he goes to Canada every summer with his kids.
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Valued Member
United States
142 Posts |
When I first started roll hunting (a few months ago), I traded them back in with my coin dump, but I recently decided to start keeping them, and it's turning into another fun little collection.
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New Member
United States
40 Posts |
I first started coin collecting as a World Coin collector, so I keep everything I get :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
519 Posts |
I live about 125 miles south of BC. We generally go to Victoria at least every year or so. Any Canadian coins go with me to be spent.
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New Member
United States
21 Posts |
I live about four hours from Canada and have collected over $150 in coins so far. Some from CRH and some from checking coin counting machines. When I get to around $500, I am off to the Canadian Casinos to cash them in!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1118 Posts |
I save all my American change and go to the American bank to get rolls of half dollars. After I search them for silver I use them to buy American goodies you can not get in Canada. (You guys have like a bajillion different flaovurs of Arizona Ice Tea and breakfast cereals.) Any Bermudians I keep for a date set I am half working on. All the others get put into plastic capsules by the group of 3. I then put the capsule in my Gumball Machine and drag it to the coin shows for the kiddies. |
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Valued Member
United States
446 Posts |
After a few decades in this hobby, I still get a kick out finding Canadian and other foreign coins in my searches.
As I tell my wife, it's all about the simple pleasures.
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Moderator
United States
188770 Posts |
I agree. Well said.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2403 Posts |
All foreign coins I find go straight to the wife. Since she was a kid she has tried to collect coins from all around the world.
Having said that, we live about 2 hours from Canadian Border so we occasionally have a chance to spend any extra Canadian coins she doesn't want.
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Posted 04/21/2016 4:57 pm
