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Hia, forum!
Well, I love to sort pennies, but occasionally I'll find a Canadian cent (well every couple rolls actually). I like these but i don't know which ones are copper or not. I have at least 3 rolls now of mixed dates. Anyone know the date for copper or any interesting facts i should now?

Thanks,
Coppergames

Coinflation.com has a canadian branch, Im sure you can find it easily in a internet search.

The Canadian pennies are copper until 1996. However the RCM reduced their size in the early 80s so they are a little smaller than their American counterparts.

They are 98% copper instead of the 95% in the USA.

Send back to the bank the 1997-present steel and zinc coins.
keep 1960-1996 for copper
keep anything older than 1960 for collector

few interesting variety that you can put aside with collector :
2006 P (rare very low mintage of 233'000)
1985 with the pointed 5
1965 have 4 variety, 2 of them worth it, hard to know which one you have
every other collectible variety are older than 1960

buy that book for more :
http://www.charltonpress.com/NumismaticsBook.asp?v_ISBN=9780889683419#
or go there :
http://www.coinsandcanada.com/coins-prices.php

From the mints website--
1920 to 1941
Composition: 95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc
Weight (g): 3.24
Diameter (mm): 19.05
Thickness (mm): 1.65

1942 to 1977
Composition: 98% copper, 0.5% tin, 1.5% zinc
Weight (g): 3.24
Diameter (mm): 19.05
Thickness (mm): 1.65

1978 to 1979
Composition: 98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc
Weight (g): 3.24
Diameter (mm): 19.05
Thickness (mm): 1.52

1980 to 1981
Composition: 98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc
Weight (g): 2.8
Diameter (mm): 19
Thickness (mm): 1.45

1982 to 1996
Composition: 98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc
Weight (g): 2.5
Diameter (mm): 19.1
Thickness (mm): 1.45

1997 to 1999
Composition: 98.4% zinc, 1.6% copper plating
Weight (g): 2.25
Diameter (mm): 19.05
Thickness (mm): 1.45

2000 to date
Composition: 94% steel, 1.5% nickel, 4.5% copper plating or copper plated zinc
Weight (g): 2.35
Diameter (mm): 19.05
Thickness (mm): 1.45
see http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/learn/1-cent-5300004#1_1
Joe

Check out http://www.canadiancoppercoins.com .

Aidan.