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General => What's It Worth? => Topic started by: Cdn_Hockey on February 01, 2012, 02:45:52 am

Title: $2 1986 BGW UNC big or small B?
Post by: Cdn_Hockey on February 01, 2012, 02:45:52 am

I'm relatively new to collecting Canadian paper money and I have two consecutive uncirculated BGW $2 1986 notes that I'm wondering if they are considered big or small Bs. If you could help identify these note and their estimated value it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Title: Re: $2 1986 BGW UNC big or small B?
Post by: JB-2007 on February 01, 2012, 06:02:27 am

They are the small B's variety so they'd be worth around $4 each

The variety with the Large B or B's are quite scarce, they are worth around $90 unfortunately you have the common one.

It is very easy to tell the difference, the large B is very fat compared to the other letters, while the small B is simply normal size.

Title: Re: $2 1986 BGW UNC big or small B?
Post by: 50monarch on February 05, 2012, 01:37:19 pm

Hey Cdn_Hockey;

These photos may help you.  In the first photo, you can see that the "B" in the BGJ240xxxx is larger (fatter...obeser...overweight) than the BGJ848xxxx.  In the second photo the banknote actually has both a large and small "B".  There is quite the difference in the size.  If you have any 1986 $2 notes with the "BB" prefixes, specifically from BBA to BBP, they contain both a large and small "B" that you can judge the size. 

Hope this helps.

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