Canada Gets Rid Of Their Penny

CNN just posted that the Royal Canadian Mint will officially stop releasing pennies in the Fall of 2012.  They will still be allowed to circulate, but people may need to start rounding transactions if they find themselves missing the small cents.

Based on this report, it's not clear to me if people will be able to get them from banks once this new policy is started.  

I think it's fair warning for any penny collectors, and those that sort for copper cents / rare varieties:

Start ordering more now, while you still can!!!

What does this mean for copper sorters in the U.S.?  Who knows at the moment.  Canada has already been recycling other coins out of circulation.  But that program did not include their penny.  Most people felt that the program would shift to include the penny eventually.  And I  for one am surprised to learn that they will simply stop releasing pennies versus slowly filter the copper cents from circulation.

Here is the link to the CNN story:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/30/business/canada-penny/index.html

Let me know what you think.  

The Perfect Birthday Surprise

After a couple frustrating weeks without finding a single silver or proof half dollar.  I am happy to say that I had a rather refreshing time during my roll searching last week.   And it they were all found on my birthday as well.  Kind of like a present to myself.


Funny fact.  All of the finds last week came from only 2 boxes.  All the others proved to be void of keepers.     







The highlights included 4 rolls with keepers on the ends.  One '64, two '65-'69s and one non-ag proof.  And even a couple Ben Franklins in the mix.


I would have had 4 in the bottom picture but I second guessed myself and opened the roll before taking a picture of it.

I also found two 1987's that were in pretty good condition.
                                                                           
It isn't hard to request more boxes, the problem is whether or not you can actually get them. And then you also need to find the new places to return the unwanted halves.


This kind of reminded me of what it was like a couple of years ago.  Minus the number of silver-less boxes.


Feels really good to put almost 40 boxes without anything behind me.


I hope that the Ag-less trend is over for me for at least a couple more weeks.