The 2015 Canada Vacation Project

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Horrible week, especially for Canadian:

Sorting take: 19 cents / 19%, includes 1991 Canadian penny

Penny Arcade take: $0.00 Canadian. 2 Golf Ball Markers, 22 Eurocents (includes 20 Eurocent shown below).

Find of Week:

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Forgot to update last week ...here's the results, good sorting / not so good Candian:

Sorting take: 30 cents / 30%
Penny Arcade take: $0.35 Canadian, 2 Eurocents, GB 2 Pence, Mexico 1 Peso

Find of Week:

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First ever Mercury Dime found sorting! Good week for Canadian, too:

Sorting take: 26 cents / 26%, Includes US 1942 and Canada 1964, 1940 & 1946 Nickels - returned to the wild, 1939 Mercury Dime

Penny Arcade take: $2.70 Canadian, GB Penny, Aruba 50 cents

Find of Week:

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So-so week. Nice steel cent pictured below:

Sorting take: 20 cents / 20%, Includes US 57D and Canada 1998, 1939 & 1958D Nickels - returned to the wild

Penny Arcade take: $.50 Canadian, 5 Eurocents, 1943 Steel cent

Find of Week:

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Another so-so week.

Sorting take: 22 cents / 22%, 1939, 40 & 41 Nickels - returned to the wild

Penny Arcade take: $.60 Canadian, 32 Eurocents

Find of Week (really from two weeks ago but nothing too interesting this week):

[CardsNCoins]

How about an overall Canadian total once in a wihle?

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Not a very good week .. that's been the trend lately, must be a wintertime thing.

CardsNCoins, good suggestion ... total Canadian to date: $114.32

Sorting take: 27 cents / 27% , 59D Nickel - returned to the wild

Penny Arcade take: $.11 Canadian, 11 Eurocents, 1 Mexican Peso, 1 Zambia Ngwee (see below)

Find of Week (Pretty sure that must be an anteater, which is pretty cool!):

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Good week this week, the magnet at the penny arcade was loaded with Canadian and a variety of foreign coins.

Fun Fact, Total Euros to date: 7.75

Sorting take: 23 cents / 23% , incl 1940 wheat, 57 & 58D Nickels - returned to the wild

Penny Arcade take: $1.61 Canadian, 17 Eurocents, GB 5 Pence (a first), Italy pre-Euro .5 Lira, Eastern Caribbean 25 Cents, Nepal ?? (see below), Bahamas 15 cents, Equador 25 Centavos, New Zealand 10 Cents, 1943 Steel Cent

Find of Week (It's a Nepal-whatever-monetary-unit-Nepal-uses):

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Great week at the TD Bank magnet for Canadian:

Fun Fact, Total Aruba Florins to date: 8.15

Sorting take: 20 cents / 20% , incl 1970 S, 40 & 41 Nickels - returned to the wild

Penny Arcade take: $4.26 Canadian, 8 Eurocents

Find of Week (actually from last week, New Zealand 10 Cents):

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Excellent sorting day, and not bad at the Penny Arcade:

Sorting take: 37 cents / 37% , includes 1926, 46, 55, 58D Nickels - 42P War Nickel also 41 & 59D returned to the wild

Penny Arcade take: $1.15 Canadian, 5 Eurocents, India 1 Rupee, Hong Kong 50 Cents, GB 1 Penny

Find of Week (we're going to go witht the 1926 cent that looks like it went through the waffle iron):

[henrysmedford]

Excellent sorting day, and not bad at the Penny Arcade:

Sorting take: 3 (we're going to go witht the 1926 cent that looks like it went through the waffle iron):

I think it was closed up in a vise.

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Rob,
Seems to me you may be inadvertently building a nice foreign coin collection which may be as valuable as your "free" Canadian. Unless you are saving these for personal reasons they could provide a nice profit. Also there is a market for Canadian copper which I'm sure you're aware of. Great hobby with your son. Good luck.

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Rob,
Seems to me you may be inadvertently building a nice foreign coin collection which may be as valuable as your "free" Canadian. Unless you are saving these for personal reasons they could provide a nice profit. Also there is a market for Canadian copper which I'm sure you're aware of. Great hobby with your son. Good luck.

The volume and variety of other (non-Canadian) foreign coins is getting pretty overwhelming. Very few of them are worth anything more than face value, but I think in bulk some nationalities might be marketable ... for now I'm accumulating them and we'll figure out what to do with them later. I get all the Euros, GB, Mexican and Caribbean coins. In this area, I even get the Indian coins. But I'm pretty surprised by a lot of the others that end up on the TD Bank magnet (Nepal? Zambia?)!

[OdedPaz]

I asked in my bank to get the "junky" coins from the sorter, and the ones that stick to the magnet, and they looked at me like I was crazy... and, then refused my request like I was trying to steal something from them... They can get really weird here in small-town Idaho... :-~

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I asked in my bank to get the "junky" coins from the sorter, and the ones that stick to the magnet, and they looked at me like I was crazy... and, then refused my request like I was trying to steal something from them... They can get really weird here in small-town Idaho... :-~

At TDBank here in NJ the sorters allow relatively easy access to the magnet. I think if I asked, the bank would say 'no' .... so I don't ask. A teller once told me they collect all the coins stuck to the magnet and send them out somewhere and get cash for them. In a fair world the sorter would spit these out and allow the customer to have their foreign coins back ... I don't really understand how they get away with just taking them. I take the coins with no feelings of guilt, because I don't feel the banks have any more right to them than I do, since they were already taken from the original owner.