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Valued Member
Canada
217 Posts |
Is there any point keeping decent looking change? I don't really collect modern decimal pieces but being an inveterate collector, I can't help pulling nice looking McCrae, MacDonald, boreal forest toonies etc. Is this just tying up funds that could be better deployed buying stuff I like better? Or should I just accept this as a part of my collector personality?
Thoughts?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1463 Posts |
I don't think there's any point , so many folks hoarding mint rolls
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Valued Member
United States
338 Posts |
I got a bicentennial quarter today at Burger King. I'll keep it.
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Sweden
1078 Posts |
Primarily whatever suits your interest  Secondly, I find myself picking very little from circulation and I don't know what it's like in Canada, but (atleast before we got new coins here) I used to keep BU-looking coins I got in change. Prior to recently most coins hadn't been minted since 2009, which left for few virtually uncirculated coins left. What I'd like to do if I lived in a country that regularily issued new coinage every year would to collect every circulation commemorative I come across (as long as they aren't WAY too many, like USA), along with the best looking current year coins, one per type coin per year. Kind of assembling year sets every year. Naturally silver and notable errors go aside aswell. But again, do whatever you like! Remember, if you get tired of standard circulation coins you can always spend it |
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Norway
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It's fully up to you of course. I can imagine that just keeping a few small coins from circulation shouldn't hurt too much. It's what I do with every country I visit: I keep a set of circulation coins as a souvenir and as such ,I built up quite a big collection of coins and memories at the same time. You live in Canada, though, where the Mint suffers from commemorative diarrhea, so I guess that you may encounter a lot of different coins to keep in the beginning, but it will gradually get less and less. It's nice to have a collection of your own country on the side, especially when it costs close to nothing. And as X2an pointed out: if you change your mind afterwards, you can always just spend it again. Or even better, try to sell it.  Anyway, it's a risk-free collection. |
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Valued Member
Canada
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I always pull all colored quarters and any American coins, it is amazing how much one gets during the year.
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Valued Member
Canada
299 Posts |
I pull everything the Alloy Recovery Program would otherwise remove.
I'm just not sure why yet :)
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
1778 Posts |
 with trimble. ARP at work here to. Keep them for the kids of the future who won't be able to find them in circulation anymore. Just going to be given away to see the smiles they will create. "We are poor little lambs...who have lost our way...Baa...Baa...Baa"
In memory of those members who left us too soon...
In memory of Tootallious March 31, 1964 - April 15, 2020
In memory of crazyb0 July 27 2020. RIP.
In memory of T-BOP Oct. 12, 1949 - Jan. 19, 2024
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Valued Member
 Canada
217 Posts |
Yeah I do that as well. Especially pre 1999 5 cents. But as far as commemorative circulation coins go, once you have 3 or 4 of each it does seem pointless to keep hanging on to more. Still, I can't help myself. Maybe I should pass them out to kids and see if I can get them interested in coins and the history they commemorate?
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New Member
Canada
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I've been saving coins from circulation ever since I was a kid, but I always picked the best (and most shiny) ones as soon as they came out, so most of them are "almost uncirculated". I realize that most of them may not be worth much more than face value, but the nicer ones from the '60s, '70s and '80s you just don't see in circulation anymore, so that's got to be worth something.
I keep them all in coin albums with the unisafe holders. To be honest, in many cases I can't see much difference between those ones and the uncirculated coins I do have!
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Valued Member
Canada
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yes its harder these days to find anything decent in change these days ever since the the greeding mint started the the alloy recovery program I rather collect most older coins like the georges, I look out for any errors like off strikes. also the old loonie or toonie from 2012 are very scarce to find. I found a toonie in my change after 3 years still haven't seen a old 2012 toonie. I think most of the new stuff is over price and junk
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