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The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:56 pmby hammerrob
Last year I bought a CTU for $135 ... and handsorting pennies just didn't have the same attraction anymore. It would have been great if I was finding collectibles more often, but after sorting over 100,000 pennies I found an Indian Head Cent, a few wide AM cents, a lot of mostly 1940s and 50s wheat cents, and always about 30% copper. What was more fun than sorting the pennies was seeing what was on the TD Bank magnet when I dumped. Lots of foreign coins, especially Canadian.
So I changed the game up. Every Friday my son and I sort 2 rolls each of pennies, nickels and dimes. We're trying to fill out a Dansco Roosevelt dime and Jefferson Nickel book. Every Saturday we dump the coins and clean up the magnet for them. In 2015 we're taking a vacation in Canada and hopefully we can buy a nice dinner out with the coins we've accumulated. So far we've got $63.98.
This week was good, we got 35 cents copper from sorting, and the magnet gave up $2.56 Canadian (included a $2 coin), a 1943 steel cent, Aruban 5c, 2c Euro. I'll update this thread with our weekly finds.
Rob
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:35 pmby henrysmedford
You might have you son ask the tellers to save the coin counter junk for him and then when you two stop by the bank you will have a lot more for your trip.
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:41 pmby henrysmedford
PS you might start saving for passports. They are not cheep.
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Mon Apr 07, 2014 6:06 amby hammerrob
Asking the tellers to clean the magnet for us might end up being like when I bought a CTU ... 'why are we bothering to sort and put money in the machine when the tellers come up with so much Candian $$ for us!'.
We've already got the passports, so we're in good shape there.
Rob
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:03 amby Morsecode
hammerrob wrote: What was more fun than sorting the pennies was seeing what was on the TD Bank magnet when I dumped. Lots of foreign coins, especially Canadian.
So I changed the game up
Rob
hmmm....that sounds like someone I know
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Wed Apr 09, 2014 12:15 pmby scyther
It will take about 20 years to fill out a Dansco album Jeffersons searching 4 rolls a week... Roosevelts will probably be harder... but good luck.
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:33 pmby mtalbot_ca
PM me if you're thinking of going to Québec.
Cheers,
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sat Apr 12, 2014 7:18 pmby hammerrob
mtalbot_ca wrote:PM me if you're thinking of going to Québec.
Cheers,
Thanks, we haven't decided where we'll end up, but will PM you if we go to Quebec!
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sat Apr 12, 2014 7:37 pmby hammerrob
Strange week at TD Bank ... the Penny Arcade wasn't working very well, and my coins must have gotten mixed up with part of the coins from a prior customer (whoever used the machine before was long gone and probably didn't realize the machine shorted them). By the time the bank guys got the machine working I was credited with almost exactly $10 extra
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Sorting take: 27 cents copper (includes 2 1950s wheats and 1959 Canadian penny)
Penny Arcade take: 55 cents Canadian, another 1943 Steel Cent (two weeks in a row!), 8 Euro cents, 5 Chinese yuan (or rinimbi, or whatever), Cayman Islands dime.
Till next week, Rob
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sat Apr 19, 2014 11:07 amby mrlaufer
Question for you Rob - Are you and your son on a $25/week budget? Sounds like you are and I'm kind of the same way. What I've been thinking of doing is after I sort through my $25 ox of pennies, when I dump I'm going to try and roll the extra into nickel rolls to sort until I start getting full boxes with my pennies every week. then the extras will roll into dimes and so on. Might help you accumulate more of what you are looking for quicker. I know I haven't started this yet, but next friday is my go time. Anyone else see a problem with this?
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sat Apr 19, 2014 9:53 pmby hammerrob
Pretty good week, but no great stories this time:
Sorting take: 27 cents / 27% copper - same as last week
Penny Arcade take: 76 cents Canadian, yet another 1943 Steel Cent (three weeks in a row now), 16 Euro cents, Great Britain 10 Pence (first time for one of these)
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sat Apr 19, 2014 10:21 pmby hammerrob
mrlaufer wrote:Question for you Rob - Are you and your son on a $25/week budget? Sounds like you are and I'm kind of the same way. What I've been thinking of doing is after I sort through my $25 ox of pennies, when I dump I'm going to try and roll the extra into nickel rolls to sort until I start getting full boxes with my pennies every week. then the extras will roll into dimes and so on. Might help you accumulate more of what you are looking for quicker. I know I haven't started this yet, but next friday is my go time. Anyone else see a problem with this?
Well, I wouldn't really call it a budget, but we're sorting $15 per week (2 rolls each of pennies, nickels and dimes). This takes all of about 5 minutes, which is just about my son's tolerance / attention span! Over the past few years I've sorted enough copper that I'm not really in a hurry to accumulate more. We're trying to fill a Jefferson Nickel and Roosevelt dime collection along the way, but the key to what we're doing is to grab the foreign coins that stick to the magnet on the TD Bank sorters each week. We're collecting a lot of foreign coins from all over the world, and a lot of Canadian coins (which we're looking to fund a fancy meal in Canada with in 2015).
I'm not sure I 'get' the $25 strategy you have in mind, but if you're sorting I think most people here would agree that you can't be going wrong.
Rob
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sat Apr 19, 2014 10:51 pmby henrysmedford
hammerrob wrote:mrlaufer wrote:Question for you Rob - Are you and your son on a $25/week budget? Sounds like you are and I'm kind of the same way. What I've been thinking of doing is after I sort through my $25 ox of pennies, when I dump I'm going to try and roll the extra into nickel rolls to sort until I start getting full boxes with my pennies every week. then the extras will roll into dimes and so on. Might help you accumulate more of what you are looking for quicker. I know I haven't started this yet, but next friday is my go time. Anyone else see a problem with this?
Well, I wouldn't really call it a budget, but we're sorting $15 per week (2 rolls each of pennies, nickels and dimes). This takes all of about 5 minutes, which is just about my son's tolerance / attention span! Over the past few years I've sorted enough copper that I'm not really in a hurry to accumulate more. We're trying to fill a Jefferson Nickel and Roosevelt dime collection along the way, but the key to what we're doing is to grab the foreign coins that stick to the magnet on the TD Bank sorters each week. We're collecting a lot of foreign coins from all over the world, and a lot of Canadian coins (which we're looking to fund a fancy meal in Canada with in 2015).
I'm not sure I 'get' the $25 strategy you have in mind, but if you're sorting I think most people here would agree that you can't be going wrong.
Rob
Do you have Canadian folders also as you are finding Canadian?
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sun Apr 20, 2014 12:16 amby hammerrob
henrysmedford wrote:
Do you have Canadian folders also as you are finding Canadian?
Interesting thought. No, we don't have any Canadian folders. We should think about doing the pennies and quarters. We find a decent amount of pre-steel Canadian pennies just sorting. We never find old quarters, but Canada has done some interesting modern quarters (I've noticed quarters for the provinces, the 2010 winter olympics, and breast cancer awareness).
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sun Apr 20, 2014 8:15 amby henrysmedford
hammerrob wrote:henrysmedford wrote:
Do you have Canadian folders also as you are finding Canadian?
Interesting thought. No, we don't have any Canadian folders. We should think about doing the pennies and quarters. We find a decent amount of pre-steel Canadian pennies just sorting. We never find old quarters, but Canada has done some interesting modern quarters (I've noticed quarters for the provinces, the 2010 winter olympics, and breast cancer awareness).
I would get the "Warman's Canadian Cents folder 1920-2012" see--
http://realcent.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=27289&hilit=+Warman%27s also Canada used silver for coins so that is why you find only post 1967 10,25 cent coins.
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:44 pmby hammerrob
scyther wrote:It will take about 20 years to fill out a Dansco album Jeffersons searching 4 rolls a week... Roosevelts will probably be harder... but good luck.
It might take that long just to find the 2009s!
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sat Apr 26, 2014 9:31 pmby hammerrob
Pretty quiet week, but not bad for copper cents and Canadian:
Sorting take: 31 cents / 31% copper
Penny Arcade take: 50 cents Canadian (all dimes), surprisingly, that was everything on the magnet.
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sat May 03, 2014 7:11 pmby hammerrob
Good week all around, and some interesting non US/Canada variety:
Sorting take: 44 cents / 44% copper
Penny Arcade take: 72 cents Canadian. Philipines 10 cents, 8 Dollar Jamaican, Venezula 1 Bolivar, 1 Euro Cent, Romania 5 Bani
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sat May 10, 2014 8:44 pmby hammerrob
This week the sorting take was better than the magnet take. The copper penny % very high for the second week in a row:
Sorting take: 37 cents / 37% copper (Includes wheats from 40, 41, 56), Canadian 99, Poland 2010 5 Groszy
Penny Arcade take: 5 cents Canadian, 1 Euro
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sat May 17, 2014 7:41 pmby hammerrob
Another good week for wheat cents, and pretty good Canadian take:
Sorting take: 29 cents / 29% copper (Includes wheats 41, 55D)
Penny Arcade take: 70 cents Canadian, Costa Rica 25 Colones
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sat May 24, 2014 9:18 amby hammerrob
A rare silver find this week!
Sorting take: 24 cents / 24% copper, 1964D Silver Dime, 2009 Dime (come across silver more often than these!)
Penny Arcade take: $1.06 Canadian, China 1 Yuan, Romania 5 Bani, 5 Euro Cents
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Thu May 29, 2014 9:59 amby hammerrob
This week another silver find ... good week all around ...
Sorting take: 29 cents / 29% copper (includes 1944 and 1957 wheats, 1976 Canadian), 1943 Silver war nickel
Penny Arcade take: $.85 Canadian, 5 1/2 Pesos, 5 Euro Cents, US dime that was somehow tangled in all the steel coins
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sat Jun 07, 2014 3:25 pmby hammerrob
The silver streak is over ... overall not a great week, but interesting variety from the Penny Arcade anyway.
Sorting take: 29 cents / 29% copper (includes 1946 wheat, 1979 Canadian), 2009 Dime - we see so few of these it's worth mentioning
Penny Arcade take: $.50 Canadian, 2 Euro Cents, Romania 5 Bani, Philipines 1 Piso, China 1 Yuan, GB Penny, Jamaica 1 Dollar, 2008 US Marine Corp Toys for Tots Token
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sat Jun 14, 2014 7:59 pmby hammerrob
Biggest Canadian score yet!
Sorting take: 27 cents / 27% copper (includes 1950 wheat, 1968 S .. probably AU condition), two 2009 Dimes - suddenly these are popping up
Penny Arcade take: $5.30 Canadian (include 3 Loonies), Cayman Islands 5 cents, 5 Euro Cents, Mexico 1 Peso, GB Penny, French Franc 1968
Re: The 2015 Canada Vacation Project
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Sat Jun 21, 2014 12:56 pmby hammerrob
Another nice Canadian score, and big variety week.
Sorting take: 29 cents / 29% copper (1969 S)
Penny Arcade take: $1.75 Canadian, China 2 yuans, 7 Euro Cents, Mexico 10 Pesos, GB Penny, Jamaica 5 dollars, Aruba 5 cents, Isreal 1 sheckel?, 1 Czech Koruna