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I live in a city that is right on the border with Canada. I get crazy numbers of Canadian cents while sorting and almost all of them are copper. I've been rolling them up with my zinc but now I'm saving them. the last $25 box of paper wrapped rolls yielded 157 candaian coppers with 3 old King pennies. I guess I'm saving them now as I read they are now worth 3 cents each??. The weights seem to be very different from year to year. I cut open a 1996 and it was copper but very thin. Question: how do you guys sort Canadian pennies? Do you store them by date range or just mix 'em all up? thanks

I sort them all by copper/ not copper and resort the CU pennies by date 1944-1977 , 1978-19791980-1981 1982-1996 as per coinflation

where do you live winchester? I'm outside niagara falls

I live near Buffalo. A few miles from the Peace Bridge. I get more Canadian copper in Buffalo than I get when I cross the border to visit Canada. Canadian coppers are available in HUGE numbers in Buffalo.

You definitely want to stop throwing them back in with the zincs. Save up a couple $25 boxes worth and throw them on this boards' auction site. I for one will bid on them.

Oh, and to answer your question I sort mine by the following groups:

1980 - 1996
1953 - 1979
1937 - 1952

Thanks for the tip pennypicker. You know what's funny? I never, ever get a copper Canadian penny in change when I'm in Canada. I get almost all copper Canadians in change over here in the USA.

winchester333 wrote:I live near Buffalo. A few miles from the Peace Bridge. I get more Canadian copper in Buffalo than I get when I cross the border to visit Canada. Canadian coppers are available in HUGE numbers in Buffalo.

GASPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP another buffalo sorter???????? I'm on grand Island, where you at? Tonawanda?

also, they are over $.03 each now!!!!!!!

I usually get about 6 copper Canadians per box +/-. I'm in KY. Everynow and then get a King. Best King is on a 1921 New Penny. I save all pre '96 Canadian pennies, don't sort them, just throw them in the bag. Because I'm not on the border or up north I enjoy getting these coins.

BTW, just got my first 1952-2002 Canadian penny. Copper or not? Cool coin, anyway throw it in the 'Special' * bag.

*Key chain medallions, a Hood's Truck Stop Coffee Chip, foreign coins, stretched pennies, if it's coin shaped it's in there. Actually the most favorite part of my collection and the least monetary value.

Canada changed the size/weight of their copper cents several times but they were all 98% copper thru 1996 so I just put all the Queens up thru 1996 together and figure in the future they will probably best be sold by weight irrespective of date.

rickygee wrote:BTW, just got my first 1952-2002 Canadian penny. Copper or not? Cool coin, anyway throw it in the 'Special' * bag.

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The date of issue would be 2002 for that penny. It's either copper coated zinc or steel. check it with a magnet

403 canadian cu in the last twenty four boxes I sorted. I resort after by the dates on conflation.

I'm in Rochester and I get a lot Canadian pennies also. I have been sorting them by years to, but from 1953 to 1968, 1969 to 1981, and from 1982 to 1996. I guess I should change the dates from what I'm reading.

Winchester, welcome to the club in Buffalo, NY. I am out by the airport between Galleria & Eastern Hills malls where the Canadians shop. In 2010, my Canadian copper percentage was 6%. I think it is the combination of the cross border traffic and people just keep them in circulation. Years back they were worth less than a US penny and people quickly dumped them back into local circulation were they stay until we gladly take them out.

winchester333 wrote:

rickygee wrote:BTW, just got my first 1952-2002 Canadian penny. Copper or not? Cool coin, anyway throw it in the 'Special' * bag.

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The date of issue would be 2002 for that penny. It's either copper coated zinc or steel. check it with a magnet

Not copper, it's was made in 2002 for the 50 years of Elizabeth II on the throne. If it has a "P" as a mint mark below the queen it will stick to a magnet, copper platted steel, if it doesn't it won't stick to a magnet it will be copper platted zinc. Both are high mintage and worthless.