WHAT TO DO WITH CANADIAN COINS?

Peyton Manning · Jan 20, 2019

I got pennies and some loonies I don’t want.
I see coin star won’t take them
How do I get American for ii?

Also, what year did Canada stop making solid copper cents?

Icewing · Jan 20, 2019

Either find a local foreign coin collector or start mixing them into your pocket change.

Peyton Manning · Jan 20, 2019

Loonies are dollar coins, doubt I could get my dollar

smokeythecat · Jan 20, 2019

My BB&T bank will exchange them with no minimum, but if you only have a few, just keep as a souvenir.

Professor of Engineering · Jan 20, 2019

I keep all of my Canadian coins, never know when I'll get an invitation to visit! :icon_thumleft:

releventchair · Jan 20, 2019

Mine go in a Crown Royal bag a card playing friend gave me in Canada for our nightly games.
If I don't make it back for another fishing trip , some one else will be wondering what to do with them. :laughing7:

fistfulladirt · Jan 22, 2019

Whatever you do, beware if you try to pass them off inside a US bank.
I made that mistake only once.
Almost got pegged in the face when a teller fireballed them back at me!

kingskid1611 · Jan 22, 2019

Some local banks around me do foreign exchange for most countries. you could check to see which ones around you will.....

BigWaveDave · Jan 22, 2019

When I was a kid, I had like 30 bucks in Canadian coins.
We go on a vacation to visit the great white north, my folks give my little bro $30 to make it fair that we both have the same spending money...
We get to Canada, go to a bank, he exchanged his $30 for Canadian currency... walks away with closer to $40
I was pissed.
Now, after all these years, ive amassed maybe a hundred bucks worth of Canadian change.
When I kick it, it might be all he gets in my will.

smokeythecat · Jan 22, 2019

Give them to kids at McDonalds, then put them in the "donation" tray when they freak out. $2 bills are NOT popular there. I think I'll get some today and visit a couple fast food places. The look on the youngun's face is priceless. They think it's monopoly money. Or go to Michigan or upper NY and they probably will take them at a fast food joint.

sprailroad · Jan 22, 2019

Plan a trip to Canada?

sprailroad · Jan 22, 2019

smokeythecat said:
Give them to kids at McDonalds, then put them in the "donation" tray when they freak out. $2 bills are NOT popular there. I think I'll get some today and visit a couple fast food places. The look on the youngun's face is priceless. They think it's monopoly money. Or go to Michigan or upper NY and they probably will take them at a fast food joint.

I like the $2 bill idea at McDonalds or somewhere, just to see the reaction, much like the kids trying to figure out the rotary dial phone.

teleprospector · Jan 22, 2019

A Federal Reserve bank should be able to exchange them. The only Canadian cents that reject from coin counting machines are those minted after 2004 when they started making them with copper plated steel. I'm not sure if those machines since then have changed.
Hope this helps.
Jon :headbang:

mick56 · Jan 22, 2019

I mix them in with some US change and spend them at a grocery store.

Joe-Dirt · Jan 22, 2019

More bait?

DeepseekerADS · Jan 22, 2019

I enjoy getting foreign coins, I just keep them in a jar. Sometimes and most times, they're far better than getting a zincoln. I just put them in a separate jar. My kids will probably get the foreign ones - even got one from North Africa a few years ago.

Joe-Dirt · Jan 23, 2019

Weirdest foreign coin I found was from Austria (forget the denomination) with a date of 1967 under a clothes line in central Massachusetts. Rang up nice, but I’d have to say I was a little disappointed due to the age of the permission.

I do find a ton of canadien coinage when I’m on vacation on the beach in New Hampshire, I just spend it like anything else

Keppy · Jan 23, 2019

Joe-Dirt said:
I do find a ton of canadien coinage when I’m on vacation on the beach in New Hampshire, I just spend it like anything else

Yes same with me every were i shop i can mix in canadien pennies , nickels. dimes , and quarters and never had them given back... But with the Loonies & Toonies i wait to i get to Canada with them i go up there every year. Loonies is a dollar coin Toonie is a two dollar coin.

CoinFetcher · Jan 23, 2019

A mass 15 or $20 worth and sell them on eBay

IMAUDIGGER · Jan 23, 2019

Throw them back on the ground and give thanks to being an American.
If that seems like a waste...wait until you see a young fit looking guy standing at the street corner with a cardboard sign that says “out of gas”. Give it to him.