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Valued Member
United States
171 Posts |
Today I went to buy a drink at a local strip mall. The total was $1.73 . I gave the cashier $2. She gave me back a quarter and one penny. It was a 1966. That was the last penny in the register. So then she reached into the tip jar and pulled out the second penny and handed it to me. It was a 1943-D steel cent !
The ironic part is that the 1966 (because of the price of copper) is probably worth more than the 1943-D.
And the even more ironic part is that while being enamoured with the two pennies, I failed to notice that the quarter was actually a recent-vintage product of Canada. So I actually lost money on the whole deal.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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for now but with the US to Canadian rate you might end up soon making money if the candian dollar pass the US. it is only a .10 cents diffence. but your point on the cent is prity funny
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1091 Posts |
That is a funny story. Someone must of spent their collection at the drink stand.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4867 Posts |
Canadian coins are readily used here in Michigan. Get them in your change all the time. Most think nothing of it. But we're a border state so I'm not sure how that would play out in somewhere like Texas or whereever that isn't a canadian border state.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2365 Posts |
I'm in Arizona and have had retail stores refuse Canadian pennies and act as if I were presenting them with a counterfeit!
Perhaps our elderly population are starting to spend their collections as their Social Security is being stretched to pay for "expenses".
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Valued Member
Canada
309 Posts |
For me was the first time to go to the bank and buy some rolled canadian pennies.I was after a few of them to try to complete a set I've started.
Out of 6 rolls of 50 cents each,almost 4 rolls were full of US pennies.I even had a couple of wheaties,i think you guys call them.
I was surprised.One roll was actually US pennies entirely.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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quote:
Originally posted by dsking
Perhaps our elderly population are starting to spend their collections as their Social Security is being stretched to pay for "expenses".
A more likely senaario might be that the children of the elderly population have 'maxed' out their credit cards and are now stealing from their parents coin collections to buy what they just have to have 'now'! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The way I see it, if you get it in your change, you should be able to spend it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
773 Posts |
Ironic,funny,and neat.I actually look through
my change hoping to find Canadian coins.sn31.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
14454 Posts |
I find canadian coins alot here in NC also but have never been able to pass them off to the casheir, they always catch that its canadian. I guess they were mixed up in the rolls they busted open because I have even tried to pass them off at the same store I got them from with the same cahseir and she still caught it so I have a "stuff"load (I edited it myself instead of the forum doing it for me) of them just waiting for the time I go to Canada so I can spend these things
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4867 Posts |
I had got a $25 box of US cents at my bank and went through it searching for wheaties. But anyways I found 88 canadian cents! I guess living in a border state has its advantages.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2270 Posts |
The older Canadian coins are pure nickel and worth more than 25c US.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1247 Posts |
I get Panama 10c pieces all the time in change. No one really cares. If it's round and look the size of a dime someone else will take it back. If they question it you just tell 'em that the conquistador guy is Mayor Balboa one of the local fedual-lords. Works every time.  |
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Posted 05/13/2006 04:33 am
