How much money do you think we've lost accepting Canadian pennies?

[Ryan in Maine]

And even nickels and quarters?

I see it all too often. I've even been getting Canadian quarters in my quarter-rolls for laundry.

*Sigh*

[never_retreat]

Probably not even enough to measure. Its not like were talking about loonies and toonies here.

[mfree]

*ponder*

What's the metallurgy of Canadian coins? I may answer that for myself here in a moment...

[Racehorse]

You don't have to lose that money. Any bank will exchange foreign currency. If you get a lot of canadian currency, just save it up and take it to a bank to exchange it.

[Thor]

I don't know of ANY bank that will accept foreign coins. Paper money, yes.

[Ryan in Maine]

Maybe it's more prevalent up here with my close proximity to Canada (but it still counts towards the US GDP, right?).

[Firethorn]

You don't have to lose that money. Any bank will exchange foreign currency. If you get a lot of canadian currency, just save it up and take it to a bank to exchange it.

Sort of - if you bring in a bunch of coins(close to the border), they'll give you the exchange rate value, whereas when given as change it's as parity.

As to how much that costs me - insignificant, as I just hand them out to businesses again.

[MechAg94]

We have lost probably less than it would cost to determine that number.  :)


We have lost probably less than it has cost our Govt trying to cram dollar coins down our throats.