So I'm going thru my pennies with a powerful magnet (my kids) to take out the stainless from Canada as they jam up the coin counter at my local dump bank. This is after I tried to separate them out using my Ryedale. At first it worked, then on a different lot (I had changed the coin in the slot) is wasn't working any more. I figured it was a sensitivity issue.
Low and behold, the magnet isn't pulling a bunch of the contemporary Canadian pennies. So now I figure, the Canadians didn't make all their newer pennies out of stainless, only some of them?? Are the others zinc? And here I thought they were all Stainless, Dur. And my Ryedale actually works really really good?
Anyone want to give me the straight skinny on this? I feel like such a noob . . . again.
Thanx in advance.