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GaCoinGuyGaCoinGuy Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭✭
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I have roughly $29 in Canadian coinage, all modern, all from change on a couple of Canada trips. What is a good way to dispose of this stuff? Are there any reputable onlines sources that might exchange it?

Thanks
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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would just spend it.
  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a dealer friend in NC who saves it up and sends it to me. I can take it to the bank or a local dealer who will purchase it. For only $29 it's hardly worth the cost of mailing and effort though.

    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

    CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


    Don
  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,586 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I would just spend it. >>


    I don't know if that's possible in Georgia.

    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

    CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


    Don
  • GaCoinGuyGaCoinGuy Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭✭
    They would probably run me out of the state for trying to spend "furrin" junk. image
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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have never had any problem......just throw in 1 or 2 at a time.
  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That surprises me. Unless it's a cent, stores won't take Canadian change here and I live 5 miles from Canada. If you try to put some in a roll, the bank will check for Canadian coins.

    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

    CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


    Don
  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess mid-west banks don't think about it.
  • IcollecteverythingIcollecteverything Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭
    Maybe they have to be stricter when close to the border or they could be overrun with Canadian coins. I have lived a few hundred miles from the border most of my life and they are pretty common to see. Most people don't mind and I have never seen anything bigger than a quarter.

    I think I had a complete set of cents starting from 1940 found in circulation, only found a few of the odd composition nickels, were they tombac or something? Now I'm gonna have to look up tombac.

    Successful BST deals with mustangt and jesbroken. Now EVERYTHING is for sale.

  • 1960NYGiants1960NYGiants Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭✭
    The local B&M's let me buy it at 70%. I take it with me to Canada and cash it in a few times each year.
    Gene

    Life member #369 of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association
    Member of Canadian Association of Token Collectors

    Collector of:
    Canadian coins and pre-confederation tokens
    Darkside proof/mint sets dated 1960
    My Ebay
  • sylsyl Posts: 972 ✭✭✭
    Your nearly $30 Canadian is worth about $24 US. I'd save it until your next Canada trip or disperse it to young relatives to start them on their coin journeys.
  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have never had a problem spending Canadian quarters, only a couple times has a cashier called me
    on it and I just replied "oh that's just a Canadian state quarter" and they would say 'Keool" or "Si"

    Steve
    Promote the Hobby
  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭✭
    Depending on how you look at it (Unfortunately for the cashiers, but fortunately for you), these days, many Americans are so clueless about even their OWN coinage that you most likely could slip some in and just tell them "Oh, these are just the latest state/territory/ATB quarters..." or something similar for other denominations............

    I've had cashiers completely puzzled simply by handing then a half dollar....... Not only didn't they recognize it (or figure out what "Half Dollar" on the coin means), but they wre unable to calculate correct change owed after entering it originally on the register as a quarter!imageimage

    I would think you could put one or two in each regular roll of change you hand in to a bank without any repercussions.....

    Good luck!!
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