where can you change canadian coins in?
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You really can’t. Banks won’t change foreign coins (we have the same problem with American coins here).
Change them in for what? And what country would you be in when you do the changing?
At the money changer.
According to most banks I know of, coins are not actually considered legal tender when it comes to currency exchanges.
When I was younger, I actually collected all of my American coins, put them all in coin rolls, and tried to go to my Canadian bank to get American dollars. I figured that as long as I had $10 in US quarters, 100 US pennies, or $5 in US dimes, the bank should accept that and give me US bills back. But apparently that’s not how it works. They were only willing to give me Canadian dollars.
What you can do is just get yourself a plastic container and toss all your Canadian coins into it. Then the next time you are coming to Canada, you simply bring the container with you, go to the nearest supermarket that has one of those change machines, and toss all the money in there. The machine sorts it all out automatically, tells you how much there is, takes its 5% or 10% fee, and you get a receipt for the rest that you can take to cash and pay for something in the store, or just get the cash in bills.
Most American stores I’ve been to accept the Canadian penny, nickel, or dimes without noticing that they are "different". Less so for the quarters. And they don’t normally take a loonie or twonie (1$ or 2$ coins). And the vending machines reject them all flat out.
What I do is save American coins in a pouch in my luggage. Then the next time I head down to USA from Canada, I just make sure I try to use up all the coins in the hotel vending machine or at the nearest corner store.
Or give them all to the nearest charity I see, like the Santa ringing his bell outside Walmart for the Salvation Army around Christmas. They don’t care..money is money to them.
Change them to what???