Crazy Numbers of Canadian Copper

[winchester333]

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

[ramy98]

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

[misteroman]

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

[winchester333]

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.

[pennypicker]

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

[winchester333]

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.

[misteroman]

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?

[misteroman]

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

[rickygee]

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.

[ZigMeister]

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.

[winchester333]

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

[CU Baker]

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

[Dave]

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.

[silverhedgehog]

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.

[didou]

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.