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Before you try to sneak Canadian coins into rolls ...

Banks now have a small device designed to detect the presence of Canadian coins in rolls without having to open the rolls. I saw it used on a roll of nickels I turned in this morning (no Canadian from me - I never put Canadian into my rolls).
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Don
got to tell all cashiers in the country not to accept any - so they wont give any more out
but on the occasion i've even received canadian in bank rolls any ways - so what are yah suppose to do with them ?
Snowman
<< <i>They've been doing that for decades up here near the Canadian border. I believe the device is a magnet. >>
Yep. Back in the 70s I was involved in a small coin club through Wisconsin Telephone Co. (when it was called that) since my dad worked there. There was always a "grab what you wanted" pile of foreign coins pulled from phones, but no Canadian. Someone brought in the device explaining why. The coin slot itself had a magnet in it that caused a gate to slam shut inside the slot before you could put the coin all the way in.
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I've never got any Halves, Loonies, or Toonies from them.
I think they figure the Canada Quarters are just another version of our State Quarters.
Ray
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!