How many active Canadian sorters?

[CanadianNickle]

Hey. I have been out of the game for like six years. How many of you are sorting coins in Canada right now?

[Recyclersteve]

Just 99% Canadian nickels. Not looking for any special dates. And, yes, I am prepared for nickel (and other metals) to be in the dumps for years.

[johnbrickner]

I'm in the 'Cuse area of NY and put aside every CA cent and 99% nickel I can find sorting. Also interested in your auction.

[cooyon]

I'm in Pennsylvania, not Canada, but I keep every Canadian coin I find. Roll sorting here doesn't yield many Canadian cents, but I get lucky occasionally. My best luck comes from weekly visits to my LCS, where I buy all their 1c, 5c, and 10c coins at face value. In the past 2 months I got 16 KG5 cents, 10 KG5 nickels, and 5 .800 dimes. I also have a lot of unsorted .999 nickels stacked, awaiting enough free time to go through them. I usually find a lot of KG5's in the bulk searching, but it's too time-consuming for me right now. If we get snowed in this winter and the power stays on, I hope to get back into that.

[mtalbot_ca]

Not active but I use to sort pennies and nickels (look at the nickel tracking thread).

I stopped the nickels because the % were (in 2014) too low and the pennies in 2012.

Cheers,

[JadeDragon]

I sort occasionally. The Ni Nickel percentages suck now. I pull US coins that I find and move them across the border when I need to go down anyway.

[ZenOps]

99.9% nickels are about three per roll now. Its only going to continue as the alloy recovery program chugs along.

I've restarted locally as here in Calgary people are down to their last nickel.

[JadeDragon]

You have to be prepared to ignore all the alloy recovery and mint fresh rolls, and there are a lot of them. Often you know to put the coins in your return to bank box before the teller hands them over.

[Recyclersteve]

Just 99% Canadian nickels. Not looking for any special dates. And, yes, I am prepared for nickel (and other metals) to be in the dumps for years.

I meant to say that I live in the U.S. and not very close to the border.

[henrysmedford]

I got $20 FV of one and five cent coins from the coin shop for $16 yesterday. I will sort this weekend but I see a few King George's and young Queens.

[Silver4face]

BUMP! I am curious if there are any ACTIVE Canadian sorters. As an American sorter, I do find a few occasional Canadian coins (pennies and nickels - I do not sort quarters and dimes).

[mtalbot_ca]

I might be tempted to do another box of nickels and/or quarters....X-MAS is always a good time.

[Recyclersteve]

I might be tempted to do another box of nickels and/or quarters....X-MAS is always a good time.

With the photo you have next to your name, I’d think you’d be the KING of active sorters of Canadian coins.

Myself, I’d consider that I’m more of an opportunistic sorter. I’m interested in copper Canadian pennies and the .999 nickels. I’d love to buy several thousand dollars of the nickels, but I want them for 6 cents each or less including freight. So I won’t plan on getting them on this site. I’ll have to source them locally at perhaps a flea market or pawn shop.

[Silver4face]

6 cents each or less? You will have extreme difficulty, but I wish you luck. You will need to find an individual who simply doesn't know or care.

[Recyclersteve]

6 cents each or less? You will have extreme difficulty, but I wish you luck. You will need to find an individual who simply doesn't know or care.

That’s what I’m looking for. Or someone with a tub full of mixed foreign coins that I can cherry pick.

[Silver4face]

BUMP! The price of nickel has been struggling for months, maybe even for a year (I would have to research that). As a result, .999 nickels are languishing at 7 cents each with a questionable short term future. Therefore I am wondering if stacks are being returned to banks. It might be a good idea for Canadian hunters to pound banks (thus becoming "active sorters")

Here in America where I live, I have seen people give up on copper when it did poorly in the late teens. As a result, I was able to find batches of 100 percent copper for face. Can't help but to wonder what Canadian banks have , say, 10, 15, 20 rolls of pure .999 ?

[Recyclersteve]

Just 99% Canadian nickels. Not looking for any special dates. And, yes, I am prepared for nickel (and other metals) to be in the dumps for years.

I still agree with everything I said 9 years ago.

[mtalbot_ca]

BUMP!
Here in America where I live, I have seen people give up on copper when it did poorly in the late teens. As a result, I was able to find batches of 100 percent copper for face. Can't help but to wonder what Canadian banks have , say, 10, 15, 20 rolls of pure .999 ?

I will do a couple of test boxes during December…that is when coins are being returned in my area. I will keep you posted.

I live near Québec City. % of nickel have gone down quite a bit from my active sorting years (2010-2013).

[Silver4face]

BUMP!
Here in America where I live, I have seen people give up on copper when it did poorly in the late teens. As a result, I was able to find batches of 100 percent copper for face. Can't help but to wonder what Canadian banks have , say, 10, 15, 20 rolls of pure .999 ?

I will do a couple of test boxes during December…that is when coins are being returned in my area. I will keep you posted.

I live near Québec City. % of nickel have gone down quite a bit from my active sorting years (2010-2013).

I look forward to seeing your results. I recommend that you go to at least 3-4 banks, not just one or two. If you limit yourself to one bank, you could potentially pick the wrong bank and get skunked.

[mtalbot_ca]

Will do!….more to follow…

[mtalbot_ca]

Three boxes done over the holidays. See results in the Tracking section. The last box was amazing!

Cheers!

[Recyclersteve]

With nickel being heavily relied on for the production of electric vehicles, I’m frankly surprised the price of nickel hasn’t spiked more. When it does become more heavily advertised by some influential analysts, I expect nickel to go to $10-12 pretty quickly. But that could be another 3-5 years. Oh well. Still really like those .999 Canadian nickels!

[Silver4face]

With nickel being heavily relied on for the production of electric vehicles, I’m frankly surprised the price of nickel hasn’t spiked more. When it does become more heavily advertised by some influential analysts, I expect nickel to go to $10-12 pretty quickly. But that could be another 3-5 years. Oh well. Still really like those .999 Canadian nickels!

The price of nickel has actually been going down except for today (up a few cents). I do hope your $10-$12 estimate/prediction comes through.

There is one upside to shrinking nickel prices: Less .999 being poached and possibly more .999 being returned to circulation.