Here is a link to a page that has all the technical specs for Canadian coins--many of you may already have the info, but I have found it very helpful--especially for pennies.
Here is a link to a page that has all the technical specs for Canadian coins--many of you may already have the info, but I have found it very helpful--especially for pennies.
This was the site I used to start sorting coins. I now know that when the RCM rolled out the new plating technology they continued making CuNi nickels as well until 2006. Visually you can tell them apart by the presence or absence of the 'P' mintmark or the RCM logo mintmark more recently. It looks to me like the use of CuNi ended concurrent with the introduction of the new logo mintmark.
I shudder to think of all the CuNi coins I have hauled to the bank from handsorting that I could have saved.
It is not a big deal if you are dumping zincs now, but many pennies from 2000 to current are actually zinc, not plated steel. The Ryedale can tell them apart nicely. There is no visual way to tell - maybe they scale differant - have not tried that yet.
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