How Do You Get Basic Circulated Canadian Rolls In The US

Uhhhmmm .... some thoughts ....

Take a vacation to the great land up North and buy rolls.

Strike up a friendship with Canadian members of this forum and have them send you rolls.

Buy them on-line.

You will not find full rolls of Canadian coins in the USA .....

Best wishes with your searching ..... look forward to hearing about your finds

David

I'm fortunate to have some Canadian friends who visit now and again. When they are coming, I let them know how much Canadian change I have saved up (living in Michigan, I get quite a lot--right now I have about $14). They bring me that amount in penny rolls from their bank, and I give them the Canadian change to take home and use.

Then I can just roll up the Canadian cents along with my American ones and trade them in at my bank.

I know it doesn't help you, but that's how I do it.

Where do you live that you only get one or two Canadians a month?

I think the main problem is that the cost of shipping is prohibitive (otherwise I see I could buy some in bulk on the Internet).

I think my best is going to be:
1.) Continue to just find them in US change (easier when I was a kid -- harder now that we pay with credit card for so much so don't get a lot of change :))
2.) Hope that some day a co-worker, friend, neighbor, etc. will go to Canada on vacation and then will be willing to bring back some rolls.
3.) and of course hope that I get to visit Canada someday!!

Thank you!

I called TD in the US (as well as several other banks) and they said they do not have any rolls and can't get rolls. I also called in Toronto and they also said no :)

You can get three cebt boxes in a flat-rate box, ( I have purchased "P" boxes this way. Thw idea is to find someone who lives close enough to the border,and has contact with someone on the other side, who has an account in the Canadian bank, and who can get rolled cents. then after you get the two, or three boxes, call UPS,or FedEX,,and even USPS will move them). Thety are heavey, (ask my lady m,ail carrier)! It always helps to Sweeten the pot"! ie I send $100.00 to pay for three boxes, and the rtecipient does the "leg-work, and posts the boxes, AND keeps the change. Always worth a try!
Dick

I came up with a great idea. I had some stamps from an old collection. I am not a big stamp collector but I had these and they were kept nice and had some value. So I scanned them all and put them on a web page. Then I went to the Canadian Stamps Dealers website ( http://www.csdaonline.com/ ) and found a lot of stamp dealers email addresses in Canada. I wrote to everyone on that list and asked if anyone would trade some Canadian circulated coins for the stamps. I wrote to about 50 people and finally a person responded and we made the trade. They sent me a wonderful selection of pennies, nickels and dimes and I sent them the stamps. Both parties were very happy and it was a lot of fun!

Now I can concentrate on filling holes and harder-to-find dates. I have found an online dealer that I really like ( Falcon Coins http://www.falconcoins.com/ ) and also I found a guy who goes to the local show here and so brings Canadian to sell/trade.

So all worked out great!

Hi -- thanks for being willing to do that!! I already was able to fill up all the common ones between the trades and Falcon Coins so I'm all set :)