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Canadian Notes => Dominion of Canada Notes => Topic started by: canada-banknotes on January 27, 2016, 01:28:12 pm

Title: 1923 $2 Serial Number 1
Post by: canada-banknotes on January 27, 2016, 01:28:12 pm: Personally signed by the Prince of Wales during a visit to Canada. To be offered in an upcoming US auction.

{attach:3681}
Title: Re: 1923 $2 Serial Number 1
Post by: Seth on January 27, 2016, 03:53:16 pm: Wow! Any info on its ownership history?
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Post by: alvin5454 on January 27, 2016, 04:58:39 pm: Which auction house will handle this piece?
Title: Re: 1923 $2 Serial Number 1
Post by: canada-banknotes on January 27, 2016, 05:04:08 pm: Quote from: alvin5454 on January 27, 2016, 04:58:39 pm
Which auction house will handle this piece?

http://manifestauctions.com/upcoming/1-price-of-wales/ (http://manifestauctions.com/upcoming/1-price-of-wales/)
Title: Re: 1923 $2 Serial Number 1
Post by: mmars on January 27, 2016, 06:32:41 pm: OMG, this note actually circulated? Someone must have really needed the $2 at the time. :o
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Post by: alvin5454 on May 17, 2016, 04:06:12 pm: Anyone know the status of this note? Seems Manifest Auctions was vacuumed into the Stack's corporate pile. Can't find this note anywhere in the Stack's unwieldy web site.
Title: Re: 1923 $2 Serial Number 1
Post by: canada-banknotes on May 23, 2016, 12:01:32 pm: Quote from: alvin5454 on May 17, 2016, 04:06:12 pm
Anyone know the status of this note? Seems Manifest Auctions was vacuumed into the Stack's corporate pile. Can't find this note anywhere in the Stack's unwieldy web site.

"This note will be offered in our Official Paper Money Auction at the ANA World's Fair of Money in Anaheim during August."

http://www.stacksbowers.com/News/Pages/Blogs.aspx?ArticleID=2094 (http://www.stacksbowers.com/News/Pages/Blogs.aspx?ArticleID=2094)
Title: Re: 1923 $2 Serial Number 1
Post by: alvin5454 on May 23, 2016, 11:43:12 pm: thanks.. al
Title: Re: 1923 $2 Serial Number 1
Post by: Ottawa on September 14, 2016, 08:59:27 am: Another A-000001 note from the same sheet (Plate C) was offered in Spink's "Bank Note Circular" magazine, Issue 2, January 1996, where it was illustrated.
Title: Re: 1923 $2 Serial Number 1
Post by: Ottawa on September 14, 2016, 09:03:55 am: Here is the image of the note:
Title: Re: 1923 $2 Serial Number 1
Post by: Ottawa on October 07, 2016, 07:58:52 am: Quote from: Ottawa on September 14, 2016, 09:03:55 am
Here is the image of the note:
Title: Re: 1923 $2 Serial Number 1
Post by: Ottawa on October 07, 2016, 07:59:39 am: {attach:3771}
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Post by: Canadian Banknotes on May 19, 2020, 12:58:41 pm: does anybody know what price this note actually fetched in the end?
Title: Re: 1923 $2 Serial Number 1
Post by: Bob on May 19, 2020, 04:40:00 pm: Quote from: Canadian Banknotes on May 19, 2020, 12:58:41 pm
does anybody know what price this note actually fetched in the end?

It didn't sell.
(Pre sale estimate was US$40,000-60,000)
Title: Re: 1923 $2 Serial Number 1
Post by: AJG on August 27, 2020, 08:27:15 pm: Sounds like a case of the price isn't right.

I don't know if the holder desperately needed money or something.
Title: Re: 1923 $2 Serial Number 1
Post by: alvin5454 on October 18, 2020, 07:02:51 am: anyone know what happened to the autograph?
Title: Re: 1923 $2 Serial Number 1
Post by: AL-Bob on October 18, 2020, 09:16:00 am: Quote from: alvin5454 on October 18, 2020, 07:02:51 am
anyone know what happened to the autograph?

Those are two different notes. Position C and D.