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When Is A Coin Just A Coin? (The Canadian Version)

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 Posted 01/02/2017  3:42 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add AWong to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I did a version of this in the US coin section. (Yes, I'm making a weird crumb trail for myself out of these threads.)

http://goccf.com/t/276987

The short story is that I found some old coins my grandpa was collecting while he was alive. Some of them seem intrinsically interesting (like the Nazi coins and the old Chinese coins).

He had in his collection some Canadian coins. I don't know anything about them and have no reason to think they're interesting. But before I do something with them, I'm checking to see if they are of any particular interest to the coin collecting community.

These coins are actually in (to a non-collector's eyes) pretty decent condition. But they're not really *that* old.

I can take pictures of any of them if there's interest in them. Here's the list of coins.

3 Pennies: 1969, 1971, and 1975
1 Nickel: 1962
1 Dime: 1974
3 Quarters: 1968, 1974, and 1978

And in the event that these are not interesting coins, what suggestions do you have for what can be done with them? I live in the US nowhere close to the Canadian border. It's not a lot of money, so I'd probably spend more on gas than the coins are worth driving to somewhere to try to exchange them.
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 Posted 01/02/2017  4:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add okiecoiner to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Only the '68 25 cents has a chance at having any silver .. some were .500 silver and most not. I'd just slip them all in with change in your pocket 1 or 2 at a time and let the merchant weed them out. Each $1 face of Canadian coinage is worth 75 cents US.
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 Posted 01/03/2017  10:50 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ace_ftw to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I don't know if you keep your copper pennies or your nickels, but those pennies are copper, and the rest is pure nickel. (unless the 68 quarter in silver)
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