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Canadian Notes => Bank of Canada Notes => Topic started by: yojojake28 on June 06, 2012, 12:05:30 pm

Title: Upside down M on 1937 $2
Post by: yojojake28 on June 06, 2012, 12:05:30 pm

Hi guys,
I just joined the forum a few weeks ago and here goes my first post.  I have a 1937 Gordon Towers $2 and it appears to me that the prefix W/B is instead an upside-down M over B.  I know on the $1 the W is actually a W.  Has anyone seen something like this before?
Many thanks
Jacob

Title: Re: Upside down M on 1937 $2
Post by: BWJM on June 06, 2012, 01:31:30 pm

It's just a difference in the font used on the numbering machines.  CBN printed the $1s whereas BABN printed the $2s, so minor differences like that abound.

Title: Re: Upside down M on 1937 $2
Post by: Wizard1 on June 06, 2012, 02:29:09 pm

Just an interesting tidbit.... there is a series of $1 US silver certificates where one of the letters on the SAME NOTE is an inverted W (trying to be an M).

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Here's an article/census about it: http://www.uspapermoney.info/survey/invw.html

Title: Re: Upside down M on 1937 $2
Post by: yojojake28 on June 06, 2012, 05:56:57 pm

Thanks for the help.