Canada's Alloy Recovery Program
Well I believe I have found why CRH is less successful in Canada, at least for me (your mileage may vary). I don't do a lot but I get plenty of skunks and very few silver. In another forum I ran across a mention of the Alloy Recovery Program run by the Royal Canadian Mint. A quick Google and I find that the Royal Canadian Mint is actively searching coins taking anything pre 2001 out of circulation and recovering the valuable metals and replacing the removed coins with new ones (of course, made out of cheaper metals). In their annual report they boast about how much money they make ($8 million per year!). This program has been in place since 2003.
So it seems I have gotten lucky on some that were missed (unlikely) or I have hit some before they make it to the coin processors.
I don't know about other Canadians but this really throws a dent into my enthusiasm for the hobby.
It looks like coin processors (Brinks for example) have to sort their coins to take oldies out of circulation.
Couple of links of interest.
https://brinksca.tms.hrdepartment.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=486&lcid=en-US
http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/F71-2004E.pdf
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/realitycheck/sheppard/20060426.html
Well I believe I have found why CRH is less successful in Canada, at least for me (your mileage may vary). I don't do a lot but I get plenty of skunks and very few silver. In another forum I ran across a mention of the Alloy Recovery Program run by the Royal Canadian Mint. A quick Google and I find that the Royal Canadian Mint is actively searching coins taking anything pre 2001 out of circulation and recovering the valuable metals and replacing the removed coins with new ones (of course, made out of cheaper metals). In their annual report they boast about how much money they make ($8 million per year!). This program has been in place since 2003.
So it seems I have gotten lucky on some that were missed (unlikely) or I have hit some before they make it to the coin processors.
I don't know about other Canadians but this really throws a dent into my enthusiasm for the hobby.
It looks like coin processors (Brinks for example) have to sort their coins to take oldies out of circulation.
Couple of links of interest.
https://brinksca.tms.hrdepartment.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=486&lcid=en-US
http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/F71-2004E.pdf
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/realitycheck/sheppard/20060426.html
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