CPM Forum
Canadian Notes => Canadian Journey Notes => Topic started by: cdn_guy on January 31, 2004, 12:30:55 am
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I am pretty sure I m not the only on 'planning' on how to get the new note.
Has anyone:
- given flowers to their fav. teller in hopes of having a few stashed away when released?
- planned a route from bank to bank to be able to get the most exposure to the new $100
- having friends or family in different locations (across Canada) stash a few away in hope of diff prefixes
Am I the only one a little excited?
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Your best bet is to go to the main branch in your city or community. Smaller branches might not have the new $100's until maybe the next day or that Friday, but I believe that the main branch in your community should have a larger quantity of the new $100's ON March 17th. I strongly recommend you call the main branch early that morning to make sure that they do have the new $100's. If they do, I would also recommend that you ask your friendly bank teller to hold some for you.
Take my advice - try your main branch and good luck. You'll need it, especially on St. Paddy's Day!
Top o' the morning to ya,
Jonathan
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Only 44 days to go...
43... 42... 41...
...it's still going to be more than six weeks before we pocket the new $100 for the first time...
Jonathan
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Wow, there is a big pile of euphoria on the release of this new note, an I the only one who's only partially excited?
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I think the euphoria comes from the fact that given the nature of our collections, adding a NEW piece is something that only happens very infrequently. For instance, there was a decade between the BIRDS $20 and the JOURNEY $10. After we get the last of the JOURNEY notes, it could be at least as long or longer before we see another NEW note.
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Actually, Jason, there were 8 years between the release of the Birds $20 and the release of the Journey $10 (approximately 7 1/2 years to be exact!). Even though the birds $20 was dated 1991, it was officially released in June of 1993, but the Journey $10 was dated "Issue of 2001" and was released in January 2001.
Here are some time periods from the release of the Birds Issue to the Journey series:
$5 Birds: 1986 $5 Journey: 2002 (16 years)
$10 Birds: 1989 $10 Journey: 2001 (12 years)
$20 Birds: 1993 $20 Journey: 2004?? (11 years??)
$50 Birds: 1989 $50 Journey: 2004?? (15 years??)
$100 Birds: 1990 $100 Journey: 2004 (14 years)
According to my theories, the denomination with the longest timespace between the birds and Journey issues is the $5 note with 16 years.
The amount of timespace between the release of the Birds $2 note (1986) and the so-called "twoonie" coin (1996) is a little bit less than ten years since the 1986 $2 note was issued in the fall of 1986 and the $2 coin was launched in February of 1996. That's about 9 years and so many months between the birds $2 and the $2 coin.
And that is my twoonie's worth.
Later, Jonathan
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I stand corrected. But my point is clear... these NEW notes don't come to us every day!