Do nickel Canadian dollars still circulate much?

[JerrySpringer]

I am likening this auction to maybe US sellers selling Eisenhower dollars:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... ink:top:en

Curious, I guess. Some of the common Canadian coinage goes for over face value on Ebay. Does that portend well for the US cent re-sale valueif it ever gets discontinued?

[ZenOps]

Never, ever, rarer than hens teeth in my neck of the woods.

I ask around my bank branches every so often when 5-cent nickel hoarding. Last year I got 12 nickel dollars, and about 700 nickel 50-cent pieces (and I figure 5-cents somewhere in the tonnage)

I'm sure that all banks are required to send them in for melting if they get them. To put it in perspective, i found more 1967 silver dimes than big nickel dollars last year.

But my LCS still only charges 1.25 for them in BU condition. Pretty nuts.

[JerrySpringer]

Interesting. Alloy recovery near complete I guess. Some day we will see copper cents hunted down here by roving gangs of _____________ (fill in the blank).

[AGgressive Metal]

But my LCS still only charges 1.25 for them in BU condition. Pretty nuts.

It sounds like the type of thing that everyone has one or two of in their sock drawer but not many people seriously collect. Its the same story with Ikes in the USA, you never see them in circulation but they aren't rare because everyone has one tucked away for novelty value. Maybe in a few decades there will be some value.

[Z00]

One of Thogey's widows in AZ had some Constitution dollars (20) up on Webstore and they were at 17.62 when I bid with free shipping. I won it. When it showed up they were in a square tube all taped up with BU written on it. I still have them. I bid on them originally thinking that, hey 20 bucks for 17 not bad. My wife is Canadian and takes trips at times to visit family.

[TwoPenniesEarned]

I buy every nickel dollar I can get my hands on for my dummy hoard of "silver dollars" which is what would be surrendered in a home invasion. I love them. Such excellent decoys for anyone who doesn't know better.