Tonights Cent Hunter

fourwayflashers

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Jan 14, 2013
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Burlington Ontario Canada
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Tonight's Cent Hunter

Greetings from up north.

As you may be well aware, my country decided to do away with our one cent coin this year, and as a result it has made cent hunting much more difficult. Most banks around here have a no cent policy. Luckily I have found one bank that is still cool and they often give me whatever they have. I'm hunting to fill my pages. I got lucky last night and found a 1937 cent, and a few 1940s.

I went to my dump bank and the lady in front of me dropped off a huge load of cents. Made me angry as this bank has been awfully stingy with me in the past, going so far as to suggest that giving out cents is illegal. In any case I made my way to the teller and explained my story. She let me do an even swap for the other cents. Lucky me too! I got a few 1940s , 2 wheats and ton of 1960s. But what made this greater was that there was a 2006 no P magnetic in the bunch.
I nearly flipped. Here are some pics:

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It's too bad they did away w/your cents. I hope ours stays around a little longer. I love Canadian coins - just bought 2 Canadian silver dollars today!

What's up w/ the 2006?

Do u find a lot of silver up there? Seems like more would survive in circulation since they don't stand out as much as ours.
 

It's too bad they did away w/your cents. I hope ours stays around a little longer. I love Canadian coins - just bought 2 Canadian silver dollars today!

What's up w/ the 2006?

Do u find a lot of silver up there? Seems like more would survive in circulation since they don't stand out as much as ours.

Ya, what is the "no P", on that 2006. I have heard that silver is hard to find in Canada because the govt culls them.
 

Prior to 2006 all Canadian Cents that were copper-plated steel were given the mint mark "P". They produced 4 different cents in 2006. The Copper-Plated Steel "P" coin, the copper-plated zinc "no P" then mid-way through the year they switched it so that all coins no matter what the coin consisted of it would have the new Royal Canadian Mint Mark. So they also produced copper-plated steel and zinc coins with the new mark.

Now somewhere along the line when they were producing the Copper-Zinc coins with "no P", someone slipped in the Copper Steel planchets. So roughly 233,000 of these magnetic "no P" coins were sent into circulation.

As a result they have become quite collectable.
 

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