Not my note, unfortunately.  Just saw this posted on Reddit.  New serial number not previously listed in the CPMS registry.

Today was your lucky day! I imagined if they threw away  the set that also included the gold coin and it went to the landfill  but at least you saved it from the garbage. One man's trash is another man's treasure. But I did some research about the golden $20 coin and I see the melt value is $1400 but it sells upwards from 2.5k to 2.7k which is very expensive but if you have the money then I would buy it.

UH-OH! It was probably someone’s moving day and you walked away with their coins.

May 13th find:

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure!

While running some errands this evening, I walked by an apartment complex in my neighbourhood that had a lot of garbage at the curb.  Garbage day is Wednesday, so normally I wouldn’t think anything about the boxes of trash and household junk in these boxes, but something stuck out;  I saw the Canadian coat of arms on a cardboard box and immediately, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up.

I was delighted to see that it was a case for a 1967 coin set, but what was even better was that there were coins inside of the case!. Sadly (but not unexpectedly) there was no $20 gold piece in the set.  🤣

But finding free coins is always a thrill, especially when some of them are silver!  Why would anybody throw coins into the garbage?

The question is:  Do I leave it as-is?  Do I replace the tarnished coins with better examples?  Do I complete the set by buying a 1967 $20 gold coin?

What would you do?

Enjoy!
Dean

May 13th coin hunting finds:

I went back to the bank that had given me rolls of dimes containing silver and once again, they did not disappoint!

In $100 worth of dimes I found:
Three colour 2021 dimes
$1.10 in US dimes
Four 1968 nickel alloy dimes
And best of all, another 1939 dated silver dime!

Silver coins are still out there!

Enjoy!
Dean

May 12th finds: 
Main Branch Madness!

I got a call from the Main Branch today and the teller said that he had “some old $20s and some $1000s”.
I went down there after work as fast as I could, and I was glad to receive:

A few paper journey $5s (with an insert note!)
A bunch of Journey $20s and a couple of birds $20s too.
And after taking a look at the five birds $1000s in the pile, I took the best one as the others were in much worse condition.
It has been quite awhile since I had my hands on any $1000 bills; they are certainly disappearing from circulation.
I also decided to take a couple of old Macdonald $10s so that I could extend their lives just a little longer.

Enjoy!
Dean

Regarding the May 7th find of finding a 1910 Sterling Silver dime with a King Edward VII effigy, this is truly remarkable in 2025. When I am Toronto Star paperboy between 1969 and 1974, King Edward VII coins could be found routinely as well as King George V coins of 1911 - 1936. What was rare in that day was to find a Queen Victoria coin and I could never find one in the wild during this time.  I went to many banks during 1971 and 1973 to collect coins and sort out the silver and then I would sell these silver coins starting in 1971 for 25% over face value and by the end of 1973, I would get 245% over face for silver coins.  I sold a lot of coins to the Coins Dealers in Downtown Toronto but I could never find a Queen Victoria coin.

As we age, it is always interesting what we consider to be a great "wild" fine and Dean, you have proved to us that you still need to check your pockets as you never know what you could find.

Dean, you are amazing and keep up the good work on finding banknotes and coins.

By the way, as a Paperboy, I did find a number of 1909 Lincoln cents but never with the rare mint mark.  I will let you figure this one out.  Plenty of US pennies dated from 1910 to 1935 were found as a Paperboy.

Best regards, Whitenite

-Thanks for the correction @rxcory - yes the ERG $20 (was just replying off-the-top of my head, trying to recall some of the short prefixes reported).

I did not mention the 2011 HAE-HAL Fives only b/c we expected those to be short & the ones I mentioned came up short more in the middle of their run (with the exception of the 2011 AUT $20).  There's probably a few more short prefixes I failed to mention here.

I remember the HAK prefix and how less abundant it was for many weeks, but during the final two weeks prior to the release of the Polymer $5s, there was a surge of HAK prefixes starting to circulate, and someone mentioned, along the lines of "it was a pretty scarce prefix until now" ("now" referring to the final two weeks of the Journey series).  It sounds like the reason for the surge of HAK prefixes was likely due to the Bank of Canada aggressively clearing out their inventory of Journey $5s as much as they can before the Polymer $5s were officially launched.

I think eventually as more appear on the market the charlton guides will eventually reflect on their true value.

I have 100% lost faith in the Charlton as a benchmark for note prices, mainly because of the fact that they don't even update new prefixes in issue annually and the fact that the persons on the committee that determine changes to the prices of notes in the guide are mostly dealers that have a financial interest in keeping the note prices low, so they can buy everyone's notes for chump change and claim "but that's the Charlton price!!!" Just a scam all round in my opinion.

May 11th coin hunting results:

I was pleasantly surprised to find:

$3.35 in US coins
A few nickel bullion nickels
Two 10c pieces and one 25c piece from Barbados
A coin from the United Arab Emirates
A 1 baht coin from Thailand
A few 1968 nickel alloy dimes
A couple of 1969s
A couple of 2021 coloured dimes
And best of all a 1939 and a 1967 silver!

Enjoy!
Dean