Canadian Vs. US Coinstar Operations

I have not seen many coinstar machines around here. I do know that the TD banks up here were using them but are now taken out.

When you started the machine, you had to agree that all USA coinage would be taken as Canadian, so these were just counted along with our coins.

When they were around, silver was rejected, odd metals odd sized coins were rejected.

For pennies anything that was the right size and near enough the weight would have been counted.

As for how these were dealt with after, I have no clue, I was told by TD employees that the coin company came and emptied it out. I would imagine that the pennies were sent straight on to the Mint for the ARP.

I dont know how they would sort through the dimes nickels and quarters to pull out the older coins (i know that silver is non magnetic) but all other coins would be magnetic the pre 2000 quarters and dimes are 100% nickel and are magnetic, just like our current ones.

Using a magnet would remove some nickels which were cupronickel from 81 - 2000 so this process seems not very effective.

I dont see any other method other than by hand, or some precise weight measurement.

At one time the CoinStar machines I used in the USA were smart enough to tell between "Old Style" (copper alloy) and "New Style" (Plated zinc) pennies and indicated the numbers separately on the tabulations. I don't know if they segregated them in the collection tubs but if they didn't, why bother counting them separately? I assume the change to not reporting them differently was due to the US laws against melting pennies.

I wonder if the Canadian machines do the same somehow with pre-steel and steel coinage.