walktothewater sometimes I feel afraid ordering banknotes or coins internationally because of stories many people had experienced before. It's unfortunate that it had happened to you but at least you got the refund back. As a new collector reading these replies and resources available helps me a lot and avoid making mistakes as a beginner

Feeling apprehensive in purchasing notes from overseas is understandable. It will take longer for your package to arrive & sometimes postage is more due to the distance & number of couriers involved in transporting your package.

I am very happy to say that my OP package arrived by courier this past Tuesday (19th)!  It arrived from Mississauga, ON slightly over a week from when I won.  If you follow my Notaphylic Culture website you will know I regularly buy from China & Thailand & 9 out of 10 times my packages arrived in 1 to 2 weeks.  I really wish I could say the same for my European orders!  I already posted that one did not arrive (from Spain) & I have bought several items from Europe.  For me, its been a "Crap shoot" with too many white knuckle, spotty arrival times.  I once swapped with an Italian seller & my package arrived in 3 weeks while his took 11 weeks to get here! I had "wrote it off" when it arrived. My most common purchases are from the US & I usually get my items from Asia before my US orders.

I have read countless eBay bashing on social media & that China only sells "fakes."  I remind collectors that eBay is the "wild wild west" (& it was one of the reasons I started selling some of my doubles). Research what you want & get to know the sellers. I have seen countless "Nazi" stamped circulated notes & other "manufactured" pseudo-junk being passed off as "POW" notes, etc, copies or "reproduktions" sold by Chinese, US, CDN & European based sellers. Check the sellers' feedback & practice due diligence & you can still do fine on eBay.

I stick with power sellers with huge "+" feedback scores & patronize their off-eBay sites & have never had an issue.

I'm sorry to read that some of you have purchases lingering somewhere due to the strike. Just be patient & I'm sure it will all work out once this labour dispute is sorted out.

Good luck everyone!

Hi Hunter,
This variety I repoted it in the catalogue last year but it's to early to have range or prefix with this variety because we do not have many information.I put this information in catalogue to see if the poeple take attention with this,I think the only way to have more information it's maybe put a value on it???Not enought poeple be interest on that.

Claude

I was also affected. Purchased 4 eBay items from the US a week before the strike happened. They are currently "en route to Canada" so it's just a waiting game.

Now depending on how long this draws out, do I request a refund for unreceived item? Guess I'll wait and see...

Since all of the $5 IN_ prefix is all used now. I wonder what is the next prefix for the 5 dollar bill, I would like to hear your thoughts about it.

IOA-IOZ, followed by IPA-IPZ

Since all of the $5 IN_ prefix is all used now. I wonder what is the next prefix for the 5 dollar bill, I would like to hear your thoughts about it.

this variety is reported in the catalogue at page 283

Please tell me what the book says?

Hi Dean,
I hope you will found somethigs intersting in your 1$ 1973!
I bought a lot of 2$ 1986 and you it's 1$ 1973 haha!
It's the only way to found information.

Claude

Hi whitenite,
Yes this variety is repoted in the catalogue at page 283,but for now it have a little quantity and it's hard to figure out the range???I also have more information about large''B'' with 2$ 1986 but I will wait to have more information in the futur.For now I have a lot but I want more.
Thank you.

Claude

Hi Claude,

Thanks for the post, your English is getting better, I wish that I could write in French as well as you write in English.

I will let you know if I decide to sell the small B $1 banknotes.  I have 1 small BCP, 2 small BCT's (sequential numbers) and now the BFG. 

We need to get this information into the Charlton Catalogue as there could be more floating around.

Merci, Whitenite

From the bank machine, I managed to get an INK prefix $5 and an FFN prefix $10…take a look at these curious lines on the back of the note; they do not appear on the face of the note.  I do not think that these lines are scratches…Opinions are welcome!

Enjoy!
Dean

It may be a scratch based on my observations but I may be wrong as I gotten bills like these with those line on the bills which I suspect may be caused by the ATM machine when withdrawing or even the scratch may have happened at the one of the Bank of Canada’s facility packaging banknotes. I’m a new collector so I may be partially wrong but that’s my guess for how those lines got there