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mickeyman
Penny Pincher Member
Canada
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 Posted - 05/27/2008 : 14:48:07
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A teller at a bank in Mississauga went through the loose change in his till, finding a few extra .999 Ni, and exchanged them for steel nickels from one of the rolls I picked up yesterday.
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Not all who wander are lost. |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 05/27/2008 : 17:27:52
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It does happen sometimes. Remember those tellers and take care of them.
Deal |
I'm so sick over pennies....I frequently trade a dime or two for the whole "take-a-penny" container if sufficient coppers exist. That will get you some odd looks. |
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nckt
Penny Collector Member
USA
304 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2008 : 23:27:56
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mickeyman
Penny Pincher Member
Canada
198 Posts |
Posted - 05/30/2008 : 15:09:44
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Today I went in to one of my usual banks to get some nickels. The teller warned me that they had just received a large shipment of brand new nickels from the Mint, but looked and found 8 CWR of nickels. As I was about to leave she asked if I was interested in $1 coins. Apparently an old gentleman had just deposited a large number of the pre-loonie $1 "silver" (actually nickel) dollars. I had a look and bought 125. They are all 1968 - 1984, some commemoratives. They aren't worth much but I'm pretty sure they cost more than $1 if you went out and tried to buy them.
As I left the teller and one of the managers started to paw through the remaining ones, saying that I had inspired them to buy some as well.
One thing was funny. This was a TD branch, and the teller told me that they don't normally accept them, and that only the Royal Bank (RBC) takes them. So if I didn't buy them, they were going to have to deliver them to RBC. And it got me thinking--to the best of my knowledge, they are still legal tender. So why can't the bank accept them? (They did because the customer was old and there is no RBC nearby).
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Not all who wander are lost. |
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legacypac
Administrator
Canada
1653 Posts |
Posted - 05/30/2008 : 20:51:03
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| I bought sevel 1972 $1 on ebay (I hate to admit). You can't get them in circulation, so they do have a market. Interesting about RBC taking them in, but not TD... very odd. I suspect this is a policy thing - hard to deal with an "off size" coin. Just try asking for 50 cent pieces - I have a few times and no one claims to have seen them. |
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mooski
Penny Sorter Member
USA
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Posted - 06/09/2008 : 06:15:46
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The non-Loonie dollar coins have a numismatic value attatched to them? Hmmmm... I might be able to get a few of them...
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Sorting and hoarding in Seattle, WA |
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legacypac
Administrator
Canada
1653 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2008 : 11:15:52
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| Yes the value varies between $1.00 and ??? Lots. I don't know enough about them to really give advice or collect them, but like the 50 cent piece one bank sold me recently, I'm not going to turn down old currency for face. |
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Good service
