Bad news
on the penny front for Canadian sorters.
What's going to happen to the pennies that are in circulation?
Starting in the fall, businesses will be asked to return pennies to financial institutions. The coins will be melted and the metal content recycled.
The way I see it, there are only two choices:
1) Be as appealing as you can to the tellers in any branch you can find - a hangdog look may help
- and wheedle them into letting you interdict the process, particularly come fall;
2) Get out of the racket and move on (perhaps to nickels.)
The Royal Canadian Mint all but said, "All your pennies is belong to us."