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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Hey carl!.. You can always mail your Canadian coins to me, I'll even pay the postage.  |
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Canada
122 Posts |
I collect all the American coins I find, at the very least I'm making money ;) I have over 500 US cents now, and have looked through over 8600 (6%). So far, I've gotten a 1924S from a change jar, 1 30s and 6 40s from roll searching, and a 1944 in change (20 wheats total = 1 every 400). My handy findings chart says I've siphoned off nearly 1000 coins from circulation, at face value of $13, out of nearly 10000 coins searched.
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12/28/2008 02:55 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2224 Posts |
I'm doing the same thing Mopar is doing; finding so many Canadian cents in bank boxes that I decided to get a Whitman album and try to make the set from 1947 on. In over a month of looking through boxes I've got 60% of the set. And that from Kentucky!
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Valued Member
Canada
159 Posts |
I found one of those Wheat pennies that those yanks keep talking about.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
650 Posts |
I live in a border town so collect all Canadian and US small cent and Us 5 cent as well , it's hard not to get caught up in it.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
1554 Posts |
 What an amazing time it is NOW to buy high grade early Canadian Coinage (100+ years old) on E-bay. I've seen pieces that get no bids and are listed at 50% trends, among the TOP 10 finest known and to add the icing on the cake, slabbed by I.C.C.S. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH If only I could win the lottery now!  Glenn |
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Valued Member
United States
74 Posts |
Im in New York and see on average 1 canadian coin for ever roll I search. About 2 weeks ago I got 1956 Canadian Quarter.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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hello, it is a simple fact and everyone can do the math. Many Canadian coins should have a higher numismatic Value compared to US coins. Glenzy is right, for sure. I think one of the best examples are our Gold coins and the Newfoundland gold $2 coins. look at the #s minted of $2 gold pieces. anwhere from 2,500 (for the 1880) to maximum 25,000 for others. most have an issueof 10,000. HOWEVER, many of them have been melted and exact actual firures are NOT known.. then compare them to US gold coins...makes you wonder why the NFL are not priced much higher... If anyone would like to see pictures, or try their grading ability on the $2 gold, let me know and I will post some. HHB |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
I really don't understand why Canada just doesn't use our money. We send our people there, they send theirs here all the time. Canada is practically a suburb of ours so why not use use ours. Same with mexico. In fact why stop there. Russia is just a stones throw over some water so they too should just use ours. Try picturing a Russian looking at a Roosevelt dime and saying WHO? |
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United States
3499 Posts |
Question for all of you Canadians: Just how common are "Young Head" Queen Elizabeth II cents in circulation up there? And am I correct to presume that you almost never see a George VI cent in circulation?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Archraz: Young head Elizabeth cents show up roughly 1 in 150 - it won't take anybody very long to find one. George VI are perhaps circulating close to 1 in 750. That's a bit more than US wheat cents in Canada. Going further back, George V I have only seen twice roll searching recently (plus a vague recollection of them when I was a kid in the '80s). Nickels, dimes and quarters have even worse distribution due to interesting (tombac) or valuable (silver) compositions.
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Valued Member
United States
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All I got to say is I live in Florida. Where the whole Canadian nation goes during the winter. I have over a hundred pounds of Canadian coins I will be sorting through next month.
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Valued Member
United States
198 Posts |
Interesting thread, I'm from the USA but am a life member of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association. Some of my nicest coins are Canadian. I agree that you can get a lot more for your money shopping North of the Boarder! Even today the Canadian Mint produces many interesting coins for collector's. Here's one of my personal favorites, made as a freebie for those who purchased a Canadian Mint Annual Report. I think it's one of the prettiest coins ever produced by Canada, something about the Gold on Copper that really makes it spectacular.The total mintage on this coin here was only 7,746 pieces. China has affected coin collecting there too, but if you go the same way that you do with U.S. coins and do your homework, and buy from reputable dealer's Canadian coin collecting can be very rewarding! Sorry Glenn, the cat's out of the back, eh? ~ JimImage:  2003gold1c.jpg39.45 KB |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Ok Jim, this is in fact a very beautiful coin. BUT.......I am sure that you and 98% of all collectors are aware that the RCM does in fact produce such coins EXCLUSIVELY for collectors. Others they produce for strictly for export and they can "normally" only be had in some other Country. I know the Germans buy Canadian Mint coins by the millions. Any shape and form. I know several german dealers who can not keep enough in stock. My question here is: Is the mandate of the RCM to make Canadian coins for Canada or is the Mandate for the Mint to make $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ in profit? also, we have sen it over and over again, these fancy coins are promoted until the cows come home..and collectors buy them like there is no tomorrow. Mothers and grandmothers buy them for their Families as an " solid investment". just to find out a few years later that the only entities that made money on it is the dealers and the mint! and that is a fact with almost all of these fancy pieces of metal. Ok, once in a while the "inadvertently or by mistake or oversight" produce a few odd ones...., like double struck, die rotated etc off centre .. you get the drift... why? so we serious collectors create an interest for these varieties and hence everyone runs and buys the rolls etc in the hope to find the elusive coin..... Do all of you really think that todays technology does in fact allow for these "mistakes"? well, think again..... there is alot more to this whole subject, as it is worth literally BILLIONS of dollars... would really bge interesting to hear the opinions of others who know a lot more about it than I do....... HHB |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1007 Posts |
I'm relatively close to the border (North Dakota, just an hour's drive to the border) so I collect Canadian coins also. Winnipegers come to my town often so Canadian coins are plentiful around here.
I like collecting Canadian coins because of all the commemoratives offered; quarters, loonies, toonies, and the occasional dime and nickel. It makes collecting interesting.
Ken
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