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This thread is a continuation of last year's FREE CANADIAN COIN tracking:
http://realcent.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=20414
and 2012's tracking thread of the same name:
http://realcent.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=11041

Here's the idea:
List how much Canadian coin you have scored FOR FREE from any source. Primarily, we're talkin' about: banks that have allowed you to clean out their coin counting machines, or having tellers save it for you, or finding them at a CoinStar in the reject slot or on the ground or whatever. But by whatever means you got it, it has to have been free. So in short, finding it in a bank bag doesn't count.

I will keep track of it in this first post. "Bonus points" for silver stuff and pre-Elizabeth coins!

2012 total: 20 sorters reported a cumulative total of $833.23.
2013 total: 22 sorters reported a cumulative total of $1,448.03.
"CAREER" TOTAL: 30 members reported $2,281.26.

SOME GROUP MILESTONES:
$1000 sometime in February 2013.
$1500 on June 1.
$2000 on August 18.

Okay, I will be the first to post here, and briefly claim this year's lead! My wife enters codes at mycokerewards.com and gets free stuff once in a while. Her parents save their bottle caps for that, and send them home with us when we visit each year. I was dumping out the bag they sent into the "bottle cap stash" and there was a Canadian cent in the bag. YEP. ONE CENT.

$7.61

$0.42 (also 0.25 Euro and 1.80 Bermuda - from a family member cleaning their house)

I buy Canadian coin at 80% of exchange rate for all you CoinStar and roll hunting heroes who live in the South and never go to Canada.

at the bank - picked up 2 bags of half dollars....

I had the teller check the counters junk box, and got $1.10 Canadian, plus a Netherlands .05 euro for flavor.

JD

Two of the banks I dump at have a magnet that catches all the steel.. I reach my finger inside and flip the coins hidingthere into the hopper.. I usually just use the canadian for change a little at a time, but this year I will keep it all and keep count.. Ill post what I have so far in a bit..

Diggin4copper wrote:Two of the banks I dump at have a magnet that catches all the steel.. I reach my finger inside and flip the coins hidingthere into the hopper.. I usually just use the canadian for change a little at a time, but this year I will keep it all and keep count.. Ill post what I have so far in a bit..

Nickel is magnetic.

$1.50

.05 yesterday

$3.45

$.50

.05 today at the bank while dumping coins.

$1.15 ytd

JD

$2.06

$1.20

$.25

$1.40 Ytd

JD

$2.55

.50

$.30 at the bank this morning, which included a '73 nickel.

$1.70 ytd

JD

.65

$2.70

$0.20

$.10 at the credit union yesterday.

$1.80 ytd

JD

$0.40

$.35 at the bank's counter

$2.15 YTD

JD

$1.31