baddbluff said:I found a silver Canadian dime when I lived in Idaho. I love Canadian silver coins... The quarters are prob my favs. I'm putting together a nice foreign silver type set buying them @/under melt. Foreign silver tends to sell for a bit less than US silver coins.
Canadian silver coins have less silver than their American counterparts. Not for lack of purity but they are smaller.
I get lots of Canadian in Michigan. Lots of silver, too. Have not found a half dollar however.
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I have a Canadian Half, did find it MD, but it is pretty cool anyway.
sagittarius98 said:The halves are 80%, so they are less pure too. (92.5% before 1920)
But silver is silver and living in michigan, we see a lot of canadian here. In most stores though anything over a quarter we won't take due to the currency exchange rate. I am wondering where do most people get the rolls of canooks? Unless you are living at the border or check out a big big bank, how would you get rolls of canook dimes and quarters?
Love the half dollar btw. That is totally sweet.
Hugs and Smiles,
Garoulady
CoinFetcher said:The exchange rate is in Canada's favor. Their dollar is worth more than ours.
I get my canadian coins by asking. Every bank. Right after I clear them out of halfs.
CoinFetcher said:I am not looking forward to rolling all my crappy dimes, and quarters, and post 81 nickes, and post 97 pennies.
Someday, with a good movie, and some good medicine, and a handfull of paper rolls, I will get my canadian rolled. I always say to the teller I am going to whistler! haha, I want to, but we'll see.
CoinFetcher said:I have them partially sorted.
I stopped buying loonies and toonies though - to find a 999 fine toonie would be nice, but they only made...like 2000 of them?