Tips and Tricks: What to do with all that Canadian junk in your rolls.

[Kamyu]

Hey all,

I found a great way to get rid of the vast majority of canadian coins I get in either my change or in rolls of coins.

Around here, I use them in the Parking meters. :P They accept them and I get to stick it to the city at the same time. :P

How do you get rid of your Canadian or foreign currency?

 

[ivan salis]

i save it up and the mail it to a canadain coin shop to buy american silver coins with *

 

[Bigheed]

I don't get very much canadian stuff in Los Angeles. The copper gets seperated, the dimes and quarters go in my "pirate chest" of foreign coinage, except I do have a couple "twonies" I will exchange next time I am at the international terminal.

I figure the pirate chest will be good for a lego set if I have a son some day!

 

[Diver_Down]

I keep every one that I find. With the onslaught of Canadians that come down for Winter in Florida, I ramp up my Dime and Cent searching in the hopes of increasing my Canadian finds. I've always had fond memories of visiting Niagara Falls when I was young. I've set a goal that I'll return once I've filled my jar to exchange.

 

[MCBR]

I like it =) We've just been saving ours in a jar, but with not real idea what we want to do with them. We dont get a ton of Canadian down in LA either. We get far more pennies (both copper and steal) than anything else.

~Matt

 

[FreedomUIC]

I keep every one that I find. With the onslaught of Canadians that come down for Winter in Florida, I ramp up my Dime and Cent searching in the hopes of increasing my Canadian finds. I've always had fond memories of visiting Niagara Falls when I was young. I've set a goal that I'll return once I've filled my jar to exchange.

Rumor has it that the Canadian goverment is going to switch to the "Euro" to tighten the "Euro" zone and hopefully pull Greece
out of the slump they are in. The Canadian coins will be useless in less than five months.

 

[FreedomUIC]

 

[Dok Holliday]

i save it up and the mail it to a canadain coin shop to buy american silver coins with *

I will also be doing this

 

[Generic_Lad]

I just spend it like normal US currency if I get a lot of it, otherwise it goes into my "nearly worthless but interesting" bin of stuff.

 

[That Canadian Guy]

Canadian "junk" to me is like American coins are to you. If anyone ever finds that they have too many Canadian coins then feel free to get rid of them and send them to me. And about the canada using the Euro rumour I read on this post I haven't heard of that at all. Seems to be a joke but still, the Eurozone is screwed.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

I keep all foreign coins I find in rolls. I also get a lot of foreign currency off the magnet from the local coin machine. Since pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, loonies($1), and toonies($2) coins are magnetic.

Whatever you do, don't dump them back into the coin machine, the magnet will suck them up before they get counted, and you won't get them back.

HH and Happy holidays!

 

[mws_1984]

Is there certain Canadian coins that will pass in a coin counter in the US? I've had the teller bring back to me a Canadian nickel once, but when I did a box of cents. I had at least 5 Canadians in there and they weren't returned. Granted it was different tellers so maybe the other one saw they rejected and figured it in my total. I know she had to change the bag that day. So maybe she just tossed them in.
Definitely not a good thing, if something good were rejected.

 

[clovis97]

In our area, a person could spend Canadian coins just like they were US. But recently, in the past few years, both banks and businesses have cracked down like as if we were spending Chuck E. Cheese tokens.

I recently had a cashier tell me "How about giving me a real dime, instead of this thing", when I accidentally used a Canadian dime while making a purchase.

It is funny though, that the banks sell me Canadian in String rolls, but you can't deposit them back into the bank.