Topher

The correct link should be: http://www.encasedcollectorsinternational.org/

Yep, smaller than a dime. I didn't realize they were worth that much! I never take the transit as it would be a bus and three trains for me to get to work, and my drive is less than an hour and the gas still costs me less than the transit tickets would!

On Saturday the kids found two cents and a dime (all CDN, of course) along with a Toronto Transit Token. I had to buy that token off of them, and they're starting to realize that I just HAVE to have anything odd or different. The asking price keeps going up!! Those little capitalists! LOL

That's what kids are for. Mine are small enough to crawl behind the machine and check for coins that rolled away.

3 US cents, one British penny, and a German 2 Pfennig. Of course, it was my 6-year old daughter that checked it and got to keep them. I encourage my kids to check the Coinstar every time we go to the grocery store.

Not all of the 1968s were .500 silver, but it is pretty rare to find one that is anymore. Nice find.

http://www.coinscan.com/err/error.html Not a ton of things, but a handful to get you started. http://www.ashrap.com/ Click on Varieties to get a few more, and there there's: http://www.pcfleet.com/book/en/details.htm I'm just waiting for the fifth edition to come out. It was supposed to be available last month, but I haven't heard anything yet.

If those are the pure nickel ones (pre-1982), then they are worth just over $0.14 each in melt value as of this morning. I once knew a dealer up here paying $0.10 each for them, but have now changed their tune to "call us to discuss" pricing.

I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure they take the US coinage, as it can't differentiate them from the Canadian. I know that Canadian quarters are lighter than the US ones, which is why they probably get rejected down south. I'm not sure about the other coins, as I'd have to check the weight differences more closely.

Kids hit up the machine every week when grocery shopping. This week they got two CDN cents, a Euro 1 cent coin, and a 1 Paise from India.

I see you have learned the "path of least resistance". Very good, grasshopper.

Got an Idaho quarter here in Toronto. It's great, I don't even have to travel to the US to put together a set! LOL

Every time I go to the grocery store, I send my kids to the Coinstar machine. They usually find more coins under the machine than in it! Today they hit the jackpot, which is probably why they didn't take the coins out until I came up and said it was okay. Aside from the 3 pennies that my son "cashed in" through the machine they found: 4 Quarters 9 Dimes 1 Nickel 34 Pennies 1 British two pence 1 British one pence 1 Mexican 10c 3 Lincoln cents Nothing overly exciting there except the sheer amount of them. Brought them home counted them up and split them up between the two of them. My son is ready to go back again.

Worth anywhere from $0.15-$0.50, more likely the lower end of that range.

The Centennial penny isn't worth anything extra, unless you count its copper content. What year is the George VI?