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General => General Forum Comments => Topic started by: Philippe_B on October 01, 2007, 08:03:59 pm

Title: A note that should not exist !
Post by: Philippe_B on October 01, 2007, 08:03:59 pm

I have a friend who is not a member of this website who has found a 1991 $20 with serial number EVA 0000000. This note does not have a SPECIMEN overprint. He found it in a bundle about 10 years ago. He also kept notes number EVA 0000001 to EVA 0000009.

You can see a picture of note number 0 and note number 1 if you click on the link below:

http://pages.videotron.com/transam/bothnotes.JPG   :o

 I think note number zero should have been destroyed but I guess they made an error. Both notes are in UNC condition. I have been collecting banknotes for ten years and I have never seen such a note. These notes are not really for sale right now.
 
I have already sent a picture of the notes for the next CPMS newsletter.

Title: Re: A note that should not exist !
Post by: venga50 on October 01, 2007, 09:25:40 pm

The specimens had prefix EIA anyway.  Well it's hard to define this one...is it an error note, a solid radar, a rotator, a solid binary, or all of the above? 

Would be interesting to see how Charlton's would price this one! :-\

Title: Re: A note that should not exist !
Post by: d_polo on October 01, 2007, 11:12:43 pm

The zero note is supposed to be pulled by the printer, guess it slipped by.

Title: Re: A note that should not exist !
Post by: copperpete on October 03, 2007, 10:38:25 pm

Knowing that in a recent past, somebody had smuggled out for many years numerous special number out from the BoC, I would not be surprised that this serie of low-numbered was made available via a not-very-legal-way.... ??? ??? ???

Its already quite improbable to catch fresh out from bricks any low-numbered notes (under 1000), imagine just catch the "0000000".  I have much difficulties  to believe that it's happened by an error.  This note needed some help to get out...