Here's what happens to rejected Halifax bridge coins
CTV
Halifax bridges have collected thousands of coins from around the world.
For as long as the Macdonald and MacKay bridges have been around, people have been tossing coins into the baskets to get between Halifax and Dartmouth.
Millions of coins have been dropped over the last several decades, with a number of those being rejected.
"They're collected, they're taken to our area, and for the last 25 years, they've just been put in a bucket," said Steve Proctor with Halifax Harbour Bridges.
The rejected coins are from all over the world, and they've been piling up. When Proctor discovered the coins sitting in a vault, he took it upon himself on his own time to go through them as a hobby.
"There's coins from Vanuatu, there's Australia, there's New Zealand. Every country in Central America is represented. Every country except Paraguay in South America is represented," said Proctor.
"Each of them must, in my mind, tell a story."
Of all the rejected coins, Proctor sees three as the most interesting.
