Canadian Money

I live in Michigan, only about an hour's drive to Windsor, ON, and it's really common to get Canadian coins (dimes and quarters, especially).

I often wonder if other people in the US get a lot of Canadian coins. I know in Florida, businesses don't accept Canadian coins. Where I live, we treat it just like it's American money.

I also wonder if Canadian people get American coins a lot....

 

i know further north in Vt they take canadian

i usually have lots of canadian money, just cuz i go up there a lot

 

We don't accept loonies or bills, but we do take Canadian quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies.

 

I get US coins from time to time. There is no exchange on loose coins, dollars only.

 

You can't really do a hell of alot with american coins here unless you sneak one in at Tim Horton's drive thru...lol


When I worked in the bank we wouldnt usually accept american coins unless they were in rolls and the client had an american funds account. Too hard to get rid of and too much hassle to keep on hand.

 

I think here it isn't such a big deal because we are so close to the border and it happens all the time...

 

we treat american currency like Canadian, basically. Quarters get thrown in the quarter area.

People get offended at the store that we don't offer an exchange rate in the computer, that they have to walk a whole 20 metres to the bank. Fuckers. You're in -Canada- we don't accept American bills (ie 20's) at an exchange rate. (sorry, just, the ignorant tourist types always annoy me)

 

I would say sometimes the coins are accepted, I'm not sure if its because they are so similar and not noticed or what

they are pretty common here, but we aren't that far from canada either

 

my mother in law came to visit... she is from Ohio and we now live in Canada. She couldn't figure out Canadian money.

She took $300 CND from the ATM machine (which she insisted on calling CIBCs for the rest of her visit because the first one she took money from was in a CIBC, so she figured we called ATMs CIBCs... ) and asked me what she could buy with $300 CND. I said anything that is worth $300. She asked me how much the money was worth in the US... I said "about $275". So she said, "well, if its only worth $275, why did you tell me I could buy $300 worth of stuff with it?".

Then she couldn't grasp that the loonies were a dollar and the toonies were 2 dollars... kept asking "wheres your bill dollar at??" I gave up at that point.

For the record... we accept US coins, and even dollar bills at most places in my town. We live only an hour from the border, so its usually just easier to take the damned $20 than try to explain where the bank is.

 

sorry but your mother in law sounds like a retard

what are loonies, sounds totally lame

 

she isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.. thats for sure.

A loonie is our one dollar coin... it is gold coloured and about the size of a US silver dollar. It has a loon on it, hence the "loonie". A toonie is our 2 dollar coin...its silver with a gold center. It has a polar bear on it, but is worth 2 loonies, so we call it a toonie.

 

ahh got it now

It would be nice if they could make a dollar coin that actually was used by people here

 

The new Canadian quarters look weird...I thought it was fake when I was counting my drawer at work one time.

Seamonster:
In parking structures where you pay ahead of time in Ann Arbor...if it's two dollars to park and you put a five or ten dollar bill in, it gives you the change in Sacagewea (spelling...grrr)...

They are used pretty often in the downtown Ann Arbor area, I've noticed.

 

better be carefull with them coins,, they may be bugged,,

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/01/10/rfid-defence.html

 

we took our paper dollar and two dollar bills our of circulation... so the people of Canada didn't really have a choice but to use the coins. It has saved our government so much money!

 

I always use Canadian coins my stepdad has in old vending machines... they can't tell the difference Save a couple of cents!

Shit, thinking about it... I used to be able to buy drinks at vending machines here with Honduran 50 cent coins. One Honduran cent is work 1/25th of a US cent... imagine the possibilities!

 

i have a good $60 in canadian coins at home

you know when i'm in montreal when you hear someone walking around with coins clanking in the pockets

 

I don't know if I've ever seen a Canadian coin. Seriously. I probably have but I can't think of it.

 

Nothing pisses me off more than when I need something to drink and all I have is a canadian coin. Then I have to go around like a beggar asking for change so I can get some water.

 

hahahahaha


i love our money, it's colourful
i get merican coins all the time, sometimes i collect em, but other times i just use em, no one cares..

nothing beats the loonie
even just for the laugh factor