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Canadian Notes => Early Canadian Notes => Topic started by: ironsteph on April 26, 2014, 10:09:49 am

Title: Bank Of British North America 1875 5$
Post by: ironsteph on April 26, 2014, 10:09:49 am

Hi, i have this proof note and i have no idea whats its worth. Thanks

Title: Re: Bank Of British North America 1875 5$
Post by: ironsteph on April 26, 2014, 10:10:12 am

http://imageshack.com/a/img836/2559/j9yc.jpg

Title: Re: Bank Of British North America 1875 5$
Post by: Bob on April 26, 2014, 01:16:09 pm

Sorry, Ironsteph, it has no value at all.
It isn't a proof.  It's not engraved.  It is a lithographed picture of a counterfeit note, cut out of an old book.
It is the bottom image on a strip of five such pictures found between pages 454 and 455 of "Memoirs of a Great Detective", William Heineman pub., London, 1904.
I hope you don't have too much invested in this.
Canadian proofs should not be from cancelled plates, nor counterfeit plates, and they should be engraved (except in very rare instances).

Title: Re: Bank Of British North America 1875 5$
Post by: Bob on April 26, 2014, 03:59:36 pm

Well.  Now there's another one on that internet auction site, item number 301166037563, offered as a Printers Proof/ ex Specimen Book!  It's just a picture of a counterfeit Cdn. Bank of Commerce $5, from the same book.  The vendor has been notified.