What Kind Of Mix When Buying Boxes Of Cents?

I don't "have to" but if I want a lot of rolls of pennies at once, say $25 worth, the bank has to order them in. Maybe it's because this is a small town and they don't keep a large number of rolled coins on hand so they don't like to sell a lot of rolls to one person and short themselves for their small businesses clients needing coin. Who knows, I don't.

I was told the bank places orders for coins every Tuesday and its generally in by Thursday latest.

Do any of you Canadians in here ever buy boxes of coins from our Canadian banks? If so, do you get a mixed batch of all dates? Or is it a case of you never know what you'll get? or all new dates etc

Scooby, I think if I were in the city, say Vancouver or Calgary, they'd have $25 worth on hand and carry more routinely because they have way more bank clients and business accounts than small towns.

I went through my first box of pennies. When I got to the bank, and asked for a box, they went in the back and got one. I found two foreign coins, a one penny British coin, one coin from the Phillipines and an old 1936 canadian penny, quite worn, but still in pretty good shape. Then I took the box back to the same bank, and exchanged it for another one. I returned home with an entire box of 2010 pennies, in rolls. I have kept this box, just in case this may be the last year for minting circulating pennies. As I passed the magnet over the rolls, no rolls stuck to the strong magnet.

By the way, congrats on catching that 1936!! I have yet to spot any 30's at all, or 1920's. My oldest Canadian cent so far is a 1941!

Sounds a good plan to save them in case they do away with our penny then. I don't think I'd be able to resist opening them just to see whats in them though If they came directly from the mint then I'd probably assume they were all current new pennies too though.

It's looking like I might end up sticking to just buying whatever loose rolls they have when I can rather than boxes then.

Out of curiosity, let me know if you find any, and how many, of those Volunteers dimes with the many die bleeds between the rims and the letterings and designs. I still have a bee in my bonnet wondering how many of those die bleeds ones were "accidentally" released

Those Poppy quarters sound nice. I saw an image of a quarter with two small red poppies on it, Is this the new poppy quarter you're talking about?

You know, I'm thinking that our coins, most notably the pennies, show a lot of surface irregularities since they switched from our copper 12 sided ones in 1997. Very different looking from the copper pennies I think? Mind you, I'm pretty new to looking at coins and maybe I don't know what I'm talking about

Well, enough posting from me for one day I think! Motor typer (motor mouth)

I've only visited one bank. They order boxes for businesses or rather businesses order boxes. They have to make sure they have these on hand so they were reluctant to give me a box but did anyways. The next time, I just swapped it out so no problem. Guess it depends on bank size and change turn over.

I find about 30% copper (mostly 70's), 5-15 wheats (mostly 50's), 2-3 Canadians (some 40's), 2-3 S mints (hate this part), and one time 15 dimes (13 in the same roll :) Generally don't find many copper reds but when I do they are almost always from the early 60's which I find both strange and pleasing. My oldest is a 1935. My best grade is a 1958D that if I hadn't pulled it from a roll would have called uncirculated.

I almost always get rolls of circulated cents. Only last year was I able to score whole boxes of the same year, 3 boxes of the LP1, 2 boxes of LP2 & 3.