I collect junk silver. I have a couple friends who cashier here and there that buy it for me. People spent 50 cent pieces (some worth $5) and real silver dollars (some worth $10) at face value all the time. People tend to be foolish.
I have a tendency to hold on to any coins that look unique/interesting. I actually got one of the world war Victory nickels in some change once. It's not worth much but I like the history behind it
You may very well have haha. I'm not sure where exactly mine is, I just know it's somewhere with some of the other oddball coins I've come across over the years. They're not *rare* exactly. Also idk why I was thinking it was an American coin. But given they're Canadian and from 1945ish, it might be a bit stranger to encounter one outside Canada.
That would indeed be a tiny bit strange. But not impossible. Maybe a Canadian gifted it to their American friend, and the American friend later gave it away. Perhaps a Canadian brought it down to America and lost it while they were visiting. It could also be an American tourist picked one up any number of ways.
That would be my guess. Everytime I've been to America they've been VERY strict about getting any Canadian coins as change, so the American tourist or else a collector seems Mo'st likely.
Haha good job. Hopefully you don't accidentally spend it at the arcade though :p
Wonder how that happened. Any place I've been in America, if there was a Canadian coin in my change they acted like I'd just handed them a plague infested maggot. And this isn't just recently, this was back when there was only like a 1.0766758633 cent difference. I tried to be careful after me and my group having issues with it in various states, but at one place a Canadian penny got mixed up with my American pennies and the Cashier spent a solid 5 minutes picking through every single coin and then told me she couldn't accept the penny.
Then Americans would come to Canada and get genuinely enraged at me and my coworkers if we couldn't accept their $50 bills..
It is, but many of us still trade on the “melt value” of certain coins. The fact they were made by a US mint guarantees the precious metal content, the silver is still there should our current economic system collapse, foreign collectors of precious metals give zero fucks about US currency laws.
In a coin.
Imagine.
Accidentally dropping THAT into a soda machine.
The man just gave him about 6 coins. I've got one as a memento.
Lemme check.
Who knows?
Haha good job. Hopefully you don't accidentally spend it at the arcade though :p
I save at least 1 token from any given place if I don't already have one like it.
Then Americans would come to Canada and get genuinely enraged at me and my coworkers if we couldn't accept their $50 bills..
Doesn't that lower the coin value? Or is it just for shits and giggles?