Canadians eh? What to do with them.

[sheepdog_tx]

The coins, not the smelly guys with hockey sticks.

Been holding on to my canadian pennies cause,.. well,. they got my copper than pre82s and its not illegal to melt them. But now that theyre gone for good, worth saving as a collectable?

 

[coolpix9]

You should still be able to trade them with someone who lives close to the border for US cents. Maybe you could tie a bag of them to Justin Bieber's leg and invite him over for a swim. JP

 

[canaboy123]

All the copper canadians i find get thrown in the scrap pile to go to the scrapyard.

 

[MrSchulz]

I save all Canadians regardless of composition. Cool to have

 

[mick56]

I just spend them at a store. The tellers don't know the difference.

 

[Dark]

With the way things are going it might be more expensive to use them in place of American currency.

 

[sagittarius98]

I keep all Canadians for the next time I go to Canada, but I keep all cents in my collection as no more are made, and they will be withdrawn from circulation most likely before I go to Canada next time.

 

[MIhunter]

I keep 1960-1979 (3.24 gm of 98% Cu) Canadian pennies as copper bullion. At one penny each I am buying copper at $1.43 a pound. I have 24 lbs of canadian copper. Zinc and 1980-96 coppers I dump in US (the coin counters I use take them.) Steel pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters that I find I keep seperate and dump when I travel to Canada.

For those of you far from Canada and no plans to travel to the Great White North, you can slip a Canadain coin or two in a roll and dump them that way.

But I recommend a trip to Canada since they,
1) speak a dialect of English, repeat after me, Hooow aboot a mole-son?
2) like Americans (at least enough, not to shoot at us)
3) are polite
4) lots to do (big city stuff, theater, as well as hunting, fishing, and camping)

Downsides;
Stong Canadiain dollar
High sales tax
Cold winters
Can't bring your guns with you