I've seriously explored the idea on a massive scale of doing a competing franchise to coinstar (1000-2000 units across the country). Essentially without the US market the numbers for Canada don't add up. Coinstar with their US presence can afford to expand into Canada with economy of scale, but it doesn't work the other way around. Too much geography and far too few people. One of the key failure points are that there are too few competing armoured car services that have coin management (sorting, wrapping srevices) to pick up and reload the machines with bags and the miles they have to travel ensure the prices are quite high. Small scale operations of four or five units might do OK where a single individual can do self service but then the available brands of coin machines are limited in numbers and capabilities. I had big backing too, but decided to can it after the analysis and RFQ's were answered.
If they dump the one cent coin I'll revisit this. Might tip the scale back to sanity.