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 Australia
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Here in Oz, we very rarely see Canadian coins. The occasional dime mistaken for a 5¢, or a quarter for a 10¢, but probably an average of less than 1 a year.
Down here, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Solomon Islands coins are far more commonly found - with NZ more common than all the rest combined; it's easily possible to assemble a full NZ date set, of 5¢, 10¢ and 20¢ anyway (our 50¢ coins looked too different to be confused). They haven't been as common since NZ changed their coinage a couple of years ago, but we still see the occasional NZ 50¢ mistaken for an Aussie 10¢.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Finland
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Sometimes I hear that somebody has received Thailand 10 baht -coins as €2-coins here in Eurozone (both bi-metallic, same size coins). Nice coins but value: 2 euro vs. 0,40 euro  |
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United States
1000 Posts |
Growing up in southeast Michigan near the Ambassador bridge and the Windsor tunnel, Canadian coins are quite common. Luckily Canadian coins spend the same as US coins here as long as there are not a bunch of them together. I probably see about 1 Canadian coin per roll on average. I often get Canadian coins in change from the store. Not so bad now that the currencies are almost par, but when the US dollar was stronger, it was a bummer to catch a Canadian quarter in change. One of my banks now check for Canadian coins with a magnet. They won't take the roll if the magnet sticks to anything. |
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United States
580 Posts |
Here in Houston I've seen Canadian pennies pop up every now and then. I've never seen any denomination higher than that, though. My wife's family is from upstate New York right on the St. Lawrence River and they obviously get loads of Canadian coins passed around up there!
I was going through some of my foreign coins last night and through the years I've collected about 20 Canadian pennies, all from 1950 and earlier, along with a few nickels and a quarter. I am not really sure where most of them came from! I've had them sitting in a box for years.
Mike
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United States
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I get a lot of quarters from time to time
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I grew up SE of St. Louis in Southern Illinois and I found quite a few Canadians in circ from cents to quarters in the 1980s when I was a kid. However, it has been a number of years since I have found any in circulation. During the recent Cent Project, I found about 15 Canadians in $50 but the surprising thing is that half of them were pre-1965  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I believe about 15 years ago I used to find more in circulation here in NC than I do now, of course then the canadian money was worth allot less than US money so I guess people would try to sneak a canadian cent in with a bunch of US cents to kind of get a cent worth of something for a Half Cent or what ever they were worth then. Now since the Canadian dollar is relatively so close to the US dollar (even surpassing it at times) people don't seem to try and spend them as much around here I guess |
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Canada
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You guys don't see as much of our coins anymore now that we use plated steel. All of your vending machines reject them (as do your Coinstars) so whatever is leftover is generally older coinage. I'd also have to suspect that if one Canadian coin gets rejected, then the person would be less likely to try another regardless of the date, so that may have a small impact as well. That being said, I've managed to get a complete set of Jefferson nickels from 1964-date (plus many earlier ones, but I've had to rely on some trades to get my War Nickels and key dates), a complete set of Lincoln Memorials, many wheats (including a 1943S), and a complete set of clad dimes. I even found an SBA in a roll of Loonies. So it appears that US coins go north far more often than Canadian coins go south. From what I understand, Florida and Arizona are good places to find Canadian coins thanks to all of the snowbirds. |
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United States
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Unfortunatly I have only found one canadian coin in circulation. I t was at a doughnut shop.
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New Member
United States
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Hello,I live in Michigan right across the border to windsor and I find Canadian coins about once a week.Mostly Quarters and nickels but I have found some pretty old pennies in the past.
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1151 Posts |
Hey Mint Marq and LittleLuie, I am a Michigander also. I too used to live near and work in Metro Detroit and was always finding Canadian coinage. Now that I am a Troll, I live under the bridge, I still see a lot of Canadian coins coming down thru the Soo.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Living way up here in NH we find plenty of Canadian coins. With the exchange rate almost even, lots of Canadians come here on vacation, cause we have no sales tax.
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United States
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How's it goingcollect4fun?
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Canada
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Hey MintMarQ & LittleLuie,....Is that you I see across the river. Quote:
Growing up in southeast Michigan near the Ambassador bridge and the Windsor tunnel, Canadian coins are quite common Quote:
Hello,I live in Michigan right across the border to windsor and I find Canadian coins about once a week.Mostly Quarters and nickels but I have found some pretty old pennies in the past.  |
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