New member from Alberta

[Wood]

Just getting in to this hobby. I recently renewed my interest in coin collecting and have catalogued and sorted my old collection from some thirty years ago and have also shared it with my 10 year old son, who has now also become involved. We live near Edmonton, Alberta and after reading many posts on this site have tried our hand at CRH'ing. So here is the summary of our finds from about $800 in quarters, $200 in dimes and $10 in cents. Nothing of real value, but affordable additions to our collection. I also find the need for more indoor hobbies, as our weather of late has been a little chilly. It was -39 celcius at my place this morning

Quarters
Complete sets of 1999 and 2000 commerative, 12 coins for each year, many spares as well
2004 & 2008 colorized poppy, 16 in total
Two sets of 2010 winter olympics, many returned to the wild (boring)
Colorized men and womens hockey, two each
Misc other Canadian commerative quarters, too many
One silver Cdn quarter 1968
14 1973 mounties, I like these for some reason
32 US quarters, oldest date 1965
13 US state quarters
4 foreign coins

Dimes
4 silvers, 1955, 1966, 1967 mackeral (2)
53 US dimes, oldest 1968
5 foreign coins

Cents
Numerous Cdn 1944 through 1967
13 wheats, oldest 1920
3 Foreign coins

So, pretty weak on the silver, but we are not really interested in melt values, mostly collectible and hopefully scarce coins. I was suprised at the amount of high quality US state quarters. As Canadians, we are used to keeping all US coins as the exchange rate has been quite good until recently.

Just thought I would share some northern results.

 

[goldencoin]

Neat finds! I'd love to see pics and more finds, good luck

HH
-GC

 

[RIcoinhunter]

Welcome

 

[nyiangelo]

Welcome! Don't forget to post your round about location on the CRH map! If you want to, good luck.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,287126.0.html

 

[Rich Hartford]

Welcome !

HH

Rich

 

[Immy]

CRHers north of the border are indeed rare to the forum. Look forward to lots more posts. And great sharin' with the little ones! Welcome!

 

[golden silver]

Welcome to the best forum on Tnet!!! Who is with me? I love seeing the influx of Canadians. It may be because I don't feel as threatened that you will tap into my silver supply LOL. With every new Canadian I offer this same note of advice... find out where you can gain access to the canadian silver halves. I know the old silver half dollars are a different size than the newer ones. This presents a problem when you order them. They won't fit into the rolls of modern half dollars. My question is where are they? They made many millions of those suckers and they all can not be in the possession of collectors or the government. The best way of finding the older silver canadian half dollars would be road trips to rural towns. Where people have turned in there old collections of silver canadian half dollars. I know some of the other Canadians have aksed about them and struck out and then gave up. Persistance would win out I believe and you would find a great deal of silver. Just my thoughts. Take em or leave em but I am still waiting to see one of y'all tap into that large resource you have up there. Good luck to you.

golden silver

 

[Wood]

Thanks for the welcome, I will post some updates and pics soon. Golden silver, I have also checked with four major banks on half dollars, all told me the same, "don't have any" "can't order any" RBC said they would have to check with head office as it is not on their order sheet. I checked back with them and they said that they won't order halves. It is funny, as the half dollar is still current legal currency, the mint still makes them. I remember seeing them as a kid in circulation, we called them fifty cent pieces. I went to a coin show in Edmonton recently and I got six of them (1980's) in my change from the entrance fee, kind of a novelty coin show thing. Other than that, I have not seen one in circulation for over thirty years. My son looked at them and thought they were fake coins. So, to add to your question regarding old silver halves, what happens to the ones currently minted? Is it possible that over the years, all silver halves were sent to melt upon return to the banks? I guess it's possible that some silver halves are sitting in some banks vaults, rural branches maybe?