1964 canada one cent in change

silverpop · August 29, 2012 10:22AM

yeah i got this 1964 canada penny in change today the third one this year i have found in change

IMHO the coin is VG

OldEastside · August 29, 2012 10:51AM

Cool, but....I hate to one up ya

But the old lady
brought home a 1952 bent (but its a King George)
a 1959, 61, 63, (2) 64's (young Lizzys) and a 65
crowned Lizzy, not bad for Southern Calif change

Congrats though

Steve

ajaan · August 29, 2012 10:55AM

silverpop, where do you live? Around here Canadian cents, and Canadians, are everywhere.

silverpop · August 29, 2012 11:42AM

abilene tx, it's pretty rare to find any money from canada in change around here

STLNATS · August 29, 2012 12:16PM

It funny, but I still get some of my biggest collector rushes from getting something unusual in change, even if its a "lowly" Canadian cent. Even have a special place in my dresser for them. Guess I'm an uncurable collector.

Congrats, wish it'd been me!

BTW, I think its a bunch better than VG, but who cares, it only cost you a cent!

ProofArtworkonCircs · August 29, 2012 1:16PM

I just returned from Canada and you won't easily find those early (pre 1965) Canadian cents in circulation there.

syl · August 29, 2012 6:24PM

Hey, hey, hey Don.... be careful of the context. Some of us still don't know if we are Canadians or Yanks. After 16 years up here, I should feel more Canadian than I do (which is little) but I still get the warm fuzzies just crossing the Peace Bridge going South every month or so. The earlier copper cents are rapidly disappearing up here, as the mint has sucked them all back for their 2.2 cent value as scrap. Soon the penny will be gone altogether, but the Mint will continue to pour out its cornucopia of grandma bait.

ajaan · August 29, 2012 9:25PM

No offense to the Canadians intended Bill. In fact, wer love the Canadians down here. The Canadian shoppers keep our economy afloat.

SaorAlba · August 29, 2012 10:00PM

Actually I average about 10-12 of them per box of 2500 cents searched. I usually find 1 or 2 George VIs also - just yesterday I found a '47 maple leaf. I live fairly close to Canada and we usually see more varieties of Canadian change than American. Go to the nearby outlet mall and about 75% of the cars have Canadian plates - yes, they are good for our economy and my collecting. For some reason Canadians bring their older dollar, two dollar bills over here and spend them. Must be harder to get rid of them in Canada now or something. But they turn up in my bank and I buy them.

lordmarcovan · August 29, 2012 10:35PM

I bought a Canadian dime out of the till at work- one of my coworkers had thrown it in that little compartment where the rejects and paperclips go. It was a 1965, and therefore... silver! Woohoo! Not bad for SE Georgia. I think a lot of Americans, even the ones who know our silver coinage ceased in 1964, do not realize that the Canadians continued theirs for a few years after that.

bosox · August 30, 2012 11:02AM

That's how I got started. I used to fish those out of pocket change in Maine, where I grew up. Of course that was a few decades ago.

Jinx86 · August 30, 2012 12:18PM

I know a few people hoarding Canadian cents now. We get tons of them up here in North Dakota in change, the Canadians come here to Fargo to go shopping(lots of it).

olmanjon · August 31, 2012 2:50AM

I have 625 assorted canadian cents if anyone wants them. Just pay the postage(from New York) plus $6.25.
Olmanjon

DBSTrader2 · September 3, 2012 12:41AM

John:

You have a breakdown of dates among those 600+ cents? And do you have any other Canadian denominations hanging around? I'm always looking to plug a few Whitman folder holes!

- - Dave

SaorAlba · September 3, 2012 2:22AM

<< <i>I know a few people hoarding Canadian cents now. We get tons of them up here in North Dakota in change, the Canadians come here to Fargo to go shopping(lots of it). >>

I get my boxes that I search from a Brinks facility that packages them up from deposits from Detroit Michigan banks - I get lots of Canadians - not that I mind, I have old Whitmans I have been filling, even some rare and scarce dates show up. Even locally we have a bit of older Canadian change circulating, it is possible to find GVI's in change occasionally - particularly at Tim Horton's.

DBSTrader2 · October 15, 2012 7:02AM

Gotta love those "Tim-Bits"!!

Not finding as many Canadian change around here as I used to (Philly), but I still hold onto them..........

- - Dave

1964 canada one cent in change

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