Canadian Pennies are only in private collections.
Stores will not accept them. They began this in 2012 and lowered the boom in Feb, 2013
http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/learn/phasing-out-the-penny-6900002#.UcwpWJymW2o Our 34 million people were paying $11 mil/year to produce pennies.
C'est tout
Gone, gone, gone where being too costly to produce items all go. & we've been told US pennies should go the same way. Betcha you could find how many tax $ you're (yes, each and every you on here) spend a year for US pennies.
:)