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Canadian Notes => Show and Tell => Topic started by: whitenite on March 26, 2025, 08:53:11 pm

Title: A bundle of $5 banknotes
Post by: whitenite on March 26, 2025, 08:53:11 pm: Yesterday, I went to my home branch in the Ottawa Valley and I got this bundle of $5 banknotes.

Just imagine to find a solid number banknote, in 60 years of collecting and buying bundles and going through millions of banknotes, I got this one.

Furthermore, I found a HBG Carney in the same bundle, the stars are aligned.

I am so lucky to find this in the wild with another banknote as well.

Enjoy the picture.

Whitenite
Title: Re: A bundle of $5 banknotes
Post by: Archey80 on March 26, 2025, 08:57:12 pm: Wow congrats! Great find! I’m 30 years in and still looking :D
Title: Re: A bundle of $5 banknotes
Post by: Breanna72 on March 26, 2025, 10:10:33 pm: Congratulations!!! Like a hole-in-one for a golfer!!!
Title: Re: A bundle of $5 banknotes
Post by: JB-2007 on March 26, 2025, 11:46:03 pm: Wow, very nice and lucky find. Never found a solid. Closest i ever got was 20 years ago getting a 5 in change number was 9999985.
Title: Re: A bundle of $5 banknotes
Post by: q60driver on March 27, 2025, 12:17:21 am: Congrats! That's awesome!
Title: Re: A bundle of $5 banknotes
Post by: TN56 on March 27, 2025, 04:19:33 pm: Congratulations on the find Whitenite! That is a 1 in 38 million chance of finding a solid serial number for $5 bill. I've been searching notes for 3 years and I haven't found a solid or low number serial. I wonder when I will hit the jackpot like you did when you found the solid serial number.

Also I noticed you haven't enter the solid serial number and the M-C $5 into the SNDB. Is it possible to enter it in the SNDB? (Im a huge SNDB fan)
Title: Re: A bundle of $5 banknotes
Post by: banknotecollector on March 27, 2025, 05:10:34 pm: you are very lucky to find solid serial number :) ..... I had a very low serial number $50 but somehow I misplaced it and cannot ind it... may be by mistake I spent it :( :(
Title: Re: A bundle of $5 banknotes
Post by: whitenite on March 27, 2025, 07:59:13 pm: This is for TN56!

It is now entered in the database.

Take a look at the response from the database!

Best regards, Whitenite
Title: Re: A bundle of $5 banknotes
Post by: TN56 on March 27, 2025, 08:14:26 pm: Quote from: whitenite on March 27, 2025, 07:59:13 pm
This is for TN56!

It is now entered in the database.

Take a look at the response from the database!

Best regards, Whitenite

Thanks Whitenite! :)

I hope you have a great day!
Title: Re: A bundle of $5 banknotes
Post by: walktothewater on March 28, 2025, 10:06:09 am: Congrats @whitenite!
That is a jaw-dropping find.

I actually got this Journey solid 8 $5.00 Journey note from my Lotto ticket change (about 2008-2010 I believe). The irony is that I was recycling FIVES (trying to find an APM $5 short prefix) but landed this AAK8888888 when asking for change (& I got it only b/c I forced the issue of getting a FIVE back). It can happen folks :D:
Title: Re: A bundle of $5 banknotes
Post by: Breanna72 on March 28, 2025, 05:07:16 pm: WoWzA!!! Re-energizes one for note hunting for sure!!! Great finds!!
Title: Re: A bundle of $5 banknotes
Post by: whitenite on March 28, 2025, 08:03:59 pm: @walktothewater

Fantastic find for a Journey $5 banknote, I noticed that the right side serial number has a slightly dropped eight with heavy ink. I am betting that the next sheet or two would have errors or the numbering counter re-centered to avoid rejections or errors.

You should get it graded and keep it for a conversation piece.

Keep searching as you never know what you can find!!!

Best regards, whitenite
Title: Re: A bundle of $5 banknotes
Post by: Mike67 on March 29, 2025, 07:49:21 am: Wow, awesome finds ! Congratulations ! ;)
Title: Re: A bundle of $5 banknotes
Post by: walktothewater on March 30, 2025, 11:39:24 am: Thanks @Breanna72, @Mike67 & @Whitenite
It's definitely a nice conversation piece although most of my family avoid the topic of banknotes :D
The funny thing is it actually stopped my searching for a while (since I got it from change & I wasn't pulling anything worthwhile from my recycling searches of thousands of notes). The note is well circulated so it had met many people's eyes & was used extensively before I caught it by chance. It taught me a hard lesson: people don't check their notes & that the whole finding a good thing is such a long shot that it can happen anyhow & any way (like through searching or just from change). Use cash & you may just find something. It's crazy really... but that's what I got out of plucking that from my lotto change.
(sorry Whitenite - didn't mean to hijack your thread)

Your solid serial looks like a great candidate for certification (its in a lot better shape than mine).
Title: Re: A bundle of $5 banknotes
Post by: whitenite on March 30, 2025, 05:06:53 pm: Thanks Walktothewater for your post!!

I am very pleased to see that this thread is being used as a discussion for a number of interesting topics including the find of the solid number $5 banknote. This is being a community of like minded collectors and it is really encouraging to see that the search of the banknote is elusive and rewarding. More importantly, it could restart others to keep the search going.

This banknote will be graded and I will post an image of the graded banknote in nearby future to continue this conversation.

Many thanks to all! Whitenite