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Valued Member
United States
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I find smany Canadians coins in my Pocket,change. I don't know if that's good or bad. Some of them are silver. Can I include them with my junk silver? I don't know what to do with them. Why are so many Canadian coins still in circulations?
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Canada
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I can reverse the ? and ask, why are so many US coins still in circulation in Canada? |
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Canada had no circulating coins with silver after 1967, so I doubt many you find in change are silver. Canadian silver is only .800 fine, less than US or EU. We've had no pennies here for 4-5 years ... we round off at stores.
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United States
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As I live in the Detroit metro area, Canadian coins are not at all uncommon. You being in North Carolina DOES make finding them a little more harder to find in pocket change; so I do understand your curiosity. I spent most of my life in retail and on occasion found collectable US coins in the change trays, but had to be VERY LUCKY as other co-workers had 'dibs' most of the time. However, nobody ever paid any attention to Canadian change. It was really 'junk' coins because if the cashiers didn't pay attention and got 'stuck' with any, it was difficult to give them out as change, and the bank wouldn't take them either. I decided to look through the Canadian coins and have found quite a bit of silver dimes and quarters over the years. Actually, there was so many Canadian change that I was able to nearly complete many sets.  |
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I'm in northern Michigan and Canada is a little over 2 hours north of here. Canadian coins are VERY common here, of course not loonies and toonies. Though on occasion I'll find those in the Coin Star reject trays.
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Canada
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In regards to the OP's question, I certainly hope Canadian coins are still in circulation...or did you mean specifically circulating in the US ;) Over the past two years I've been tracking the number of US coins found in my Canadian rolls, and would say that roughly 1% of 5, 10 and 25 cent coins in Canada are US (more specifically 1.25% of 5 and 10 cents and 0.75% of quarters). When we had pennies back in 2012, I'd estimate that at least 10% were from US. There were so many US pennies that in the span of one year of Canadian roll hunting, I put together decent collection of US pennies, largely complete dating back to the 1940s (including a 1943 steel, 1939S, 1919 and 1923). So I'm not surprised you'd be finding Cdn coins in the US. |
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okiecoiner,
what about 68 quarters and some dimes?
Happy 2021
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Yes, the '68's dropped from .800 to .500, but are still worth only about FV. Most people buy the silver ones as if they are nickel, so I consider '67 as the last silver year just to be safe.
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 United States
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Even though, I live in North Carolina, I found several Canadian coins in pocket change. Only recent after found one minted in 1952, did I started looking more closely. I keep the silver coins. As for the others I don't know what to do with them. Some coins rolls I bought from the bank contains Canadian coins mixed with US coins. I am not sure what to do with the silver coins, any suggestion would be helpful. Thank you very much |
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United States
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Atticguy, what did you do with the Canadian silver coins?
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Canada
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Take the Cdn. silver coins to your local coin store and sell them as bullion. Up to 1966 they are 80% silver. 1967's can be 80% or 50% and 1968's are 50%, so you will get 50% for those 2 years. Most 1968 dimes and quarters circulating are 100% nickel, so don't mix them up, the colour is different.
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01/11/2021 6:59 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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They were the beginning of all of my pre-1968 Canadian coin collections. No, I never found a lot of silver varieties, but they sure were a nice start.
All I need now are a handful of Vickie's to complete my nickle, dime, and quarter sets.
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01/11/2021 6:55 pm
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United States
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I live outside of Philly. Finding Canadian coins as a child started me on a lifetime of collecting Canadian coins in blue Whitman folders. With the exception of keys & semi-keys, I'm down now to just staying current with each new year's circulating releases, nickels thru Twoonies.
Thanks!
-- Dave
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