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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 8358972, member: 105098"]bank boxes as in rolls of canadian cents, or like random boxes with loose cents in them?</p><p>if rolls they'd probably sell on ebay or here or anywhere, but some random boxes filled over the years of circulation finds and no set quantity known or identified would be two different things. would be much harder to set value to it. </p><p><br /></p><p>a coin shop may or may not want to deal with them, but they won't be paying top dollar for it if they have no idea what's there or how much of it besides a "best guess" and it all needs to be sorted. </p><p><br /></p><p>it wouldn't be a collection if offered to them like that, it would be an accumulation. </p><p><br /></p><p>there's websites paying like 0.0057 CAD per canadian cent of any date if you wanted rid of them, it's a little less than a half a u.s. cent each. </p><p><br /></p><p>the more you organize the more it becomes a collection and value can be determined, but you could likely expect a coin shop to pay around atenth to a quarter cent, for each canadian cent and then they do the work of looking and sorting so they can make a little something on it or sell them to a website for the near half a cent and let them deal with it instead. </p><p><br /></p><p>Same goes for lincolns, most don't want to deal with peoples penny jars or appraising a penny jar, it's worth 1 cent each, they might do a little better than that if they see lots of copper or lots of wheats at a glance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 8358972, member: 105098"]bank boxes as in rolls of canadian cents, or like random boxes with loose cents in them? if rolls they'd probably sell on ebay or here or anywhere, but some random boxes filled over the years of circulation finds and no set quantity known or identified would be two different things. would be much harder to set value to it. a coin shop may or may not want to deal with them, but they won't be paying top dollar for it if they have no idea what's there or how much of it besides a "best guess" and it all needs to be sorted. it wouldn't be a collection if offered to them like that, it would be an accumulation. there's websites paying like 0.0057 CAD per canadian cent of any date if you wanted rid of them, it's a little less than a half a u.s. cent each. the more you organize the more it becomes a collection and value can be determined, but you could likely expect a coin shop to pay around atenth to a quarter cent, for each canadian cent and then they do the work of looking and sorting so they can make a little something on it or sell them to a website for the near half a cent and let them deal with it instead. Same goes for lincolns, most don't want to deal with peoples penny jars or appraising a penny jar, it's worth 1 cent each, they might do a little better than that if they see lots of copper or lots of wheats at a glance.[/QUOTE]
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