How much have you saved in Canadian?

[fiatboy]

I just reached $25.00. Those loonies add up fast. Everyone else?

(This is my first poll. Did I miss anything?)

Thanks everyone.

-fiatboy

 

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[Immy]

Cool thread fiatboy!

Just did a tally and the face value came to $37. But I only recently started saving all Canadian coins I find (used to be just the dates I needed) so it could have been more.

 

[snappy]

I only save the silver ones and try to put the rest back in circulation. I live 200 miles from Canada and we get a lot of their low value coins in our change.

 

[cyberdan]

I was looking at some quarters in my wife's change the other day and thought I found a silver one. (no copper/clad look) But is was Canadian quarter. I did save it for a while but it is now in my loose change bowl. It was from the '80's I think. I am sure it is not silver.

I am 1150 miles from Canada so I don't think I will have the opportunity to spend it soon up there. Besides it is worth more here.

But I am only 100 miles from Mexico. I find a lot of Pesos. Twice I have found (MDing) a $100 mexican coin. They are gold looking and very thick. I thought I found something good till I looked it up. It is the old mexican peso, value in new mexican money = 10 cents. Now convert that to U.S. money less than one cent.

 

[fiatboy]

Thanks for the replies everyone. Keep 'em coming! Anything and everything about hunting for Canadian coins is welcome in this thread. Personally, I save all Canadian coins I find. When I have enough of a certain coin, I roll it. I am especially interested in old nickels and, of course, silver. I have found a few of the old pennies from the 1930's with the King on them. And a silver quarter. And for anyone who has first-hand experience coin roll hunting in both Canada and the U.S., what are the differences? And if you have any first-hand experience CRHing in Canada, what do you primarily search for? How difficult is it to find silver, the old nickels, or any other desirable coins? Are banks accomodating? Thanks again everyone!

Happy Hunting!

 

[cyberdan]

What are the years for Canadian silver?

 

[Immy]

GMan could be a great contributor to this thread. He gets a ton of Canadian coins up in Minneapolis. I think HobBob does too.

I save all Canadian too (and now regret not doing so from the beginning). Mostly pennies and nickels but anything really. My oldest find ever is a 1932 penny.

Some things to look for:

- all pennies thru 1995 are 95% copper (the same as pre-1982 US cents)

- all nickels thru 1981 are 100% nickel (versus 1982-2001 which are a copper/nickel alloy)

- 1970 nickels, dimes and quarters have very low mintages and are hard to find

- from 2002 to date some coins (all denoms) may have a "P" under the queen's portrait and appear unusually shiny. These represent new alloys of nickel-plated steel (except for pennies)

- Quarters have many commemoratives within the last 15 years, including their version of the state quarter program that honors their provinces and territories

- dimes and quarters are 80% silver up thru 1968, though some from 1968 are 50% silver

And in case anyone's curious, the portraits are:

Queen Eizabeth II (1953-present)
King George VI (1937-1952)
King George V (1911-1936)
King Edward VII (1902-1910)
Queen Victoria (1837-1901)

 

[thurmownator]

Thanks for the Canadian coin lesson Immy. I knew some of those facts, but not all.

That will come in handy.

 

[snappy]

heck of a deal for people wanting Canadian coins.


Well silver halves are hard to come by here but Canadians are easy. I will make anyone a deal I will be willing to trade Canadian (non silver) for silver halves. at equal face for 40% double for 90%. This would apply to Canadian $2, $1, 0.25, 0.10 coins. pennies and nickles would trade for equal face in 90% (due to higher shipping weight).

 

[GMan00001]

Although I am sure I probably have a few more stragglers around the house plus those my kids have. I added up to at least $144.21 face value in Canadian.

I have found $49.08 face value in Canadian already in 2007.
938 pennies
177 nickels
76 dimes
21 quarters
2 loonies
8 toonies

And that doesn't include the dimes or pennies bags that I haven't completed from last Tuesday.

And I have had numerous opportunities to pick up more at banks, but no reason to knowingly lose on the exchange rate (though I usually ask how old the dimes/quarters are in case they are old enough to be silver). I almost had a Canadian half dollar too, but the teller refused to sell it to me since it wasn't US currency.

 

[fiatboy]

Nice little pile of Canadian coins you have there, Gman. Any favorites among those coins?

 

[GMan00001]

Nice little pile of Canadian coins you have there, Gman. Any favorites among those coins?

If by favorites you mean decent dates, here is a rundown of some of them.

Pennies:
* Have one of each date from 1940-2006, but missing a few recent ones with "P" mintmark.
* Also have found a couple of 1932's, a 1935, and a 1938.

Nickels:
* I have around 30 "older" ones (pre-1963), but most I purchased at face value a year or so ago.
* oldest one I have 1932, oldest one I found 1940.
* From 1956-2000 only missing 1957, 1967, and 1970.

Dimes:
* Only a handful are silver, oldest found 1950.
* Also bought a couple silver ones for cheap at a recent coin show a few months ago.

Quarters:
* Only ever found 1 silver one, 1959
* Also bought a couple silver ones for cheap at a recent coin show a few months ago.

 

[scotto]

I got a 1929 Canadian penny out of a bargain bin, and I'm going to hit it again in a week, they have a lot of Canadian silver coins in the bin.
I was mostly concentrating on pulling all of the 1800's coins out of it, but now I think I have them all.
Other than that I have some dollar bills I grabbed while I was in Canada 25 years ago, and some misc change I've saved while CRHing this year.

 

[waseeker]

Just added mine up since we're going to Canada in about a month and I thought it would be nice of me to return their coins. I totaled 136.10. Mostly in $2.00, $1.00 and quarter coins.

 

[Immy]

Has anyone ever found a 1999-P, 2000-P or 2001-P Canadian nickel, dime, quarter or half? See my 4/22/07 post for an interesting item I found.

 

[fiatboy]

I haven't found any yet, Immy, but I'm still looking. To be honest, I didn't even know to search for them. Thanks for the info.