August 16th finds, part 2!

As soon as I got home from the first bank, I received an email from another bank saying that they had “lots of old $100s and if I wanted them I would have to pick them up today or the notes would be shipped out.

When I get to the branch, I was pleasantly surprised to receive nine 1954 $100s.  Some are not in great shape, but it’s still nice to get them.

To top it off, the teller had four US $2s for me as well!

Enjoy!
Dean

August 16th finds:

I picked up two interesting $20 notes at the bank today.

The birds $20 has “Celestica” written in the top right corner.  I know that this is a technology company, but why would someone write this name on a banknote?

The 1979 $20 is much more interesting.  On the front, a teller had written the numbers 26 and 13.  The numbers appear to be written in the same ink so it can be assumed that they were written by the same person at around the same time.

On the back, there is much more information.  On the top margin, written in blue ink are the words “dip” and “liquore” (sic).

This $20 appears to be someone’s shopping list.  I know that “dip” is another term for chewing tobacco.

We’re not finished yet!  This 1979 $20 is the gift that keeps on giving!  Vertically printed on the front of the note is the infamous “pink stamp of death” from the 1980s/90s.

The stamp is very faint and all I can make out is the institution number 003 which is the Bank of Nova Scotia.

If there are any collectors who are also forensic document examiners, I would appreciate your help!  There are ways to view ink under different wavelengths of light to make them legible.

It’s amazing how much information and how much history can be present on one bank note!

Enjoy,
Dean

August 16th finds:

I went to a bank that I hadn’t visited in awhile and the nice tellers let me look through the mutilated pile.

I pulled out two $20s and a multicolour $10!  The $20s have writing on them; I’ll go into further detail in my other thread, "Banknotes with a story”.

Enjoy!
Dean

August 14th find:

I went to my local bank and the friendly teller showed me some paper notes.  I noticed that this birds $100 had handwriting on the back.  It looks like a list of some sort…

I’m having trouble making out the message, but it looks like someone may have been tracking their expenses.

There’s a word, then “600” and then “Ph -300” under it.

I am guessing that it means “Phone -$300”.

Can anybody help with the rest of the writing?

Thanks,
Dean

I will gladly let you know if I find any FFG TENS but I just want to caution jumping to any conclusions on your experience since new notes (& prefixes) continue to trickle out at an incredibly slow/lower than low pace.  I've been taking out 100X $20 every other week since June & I have found 1 FZZ prefix in the 8M range a couple times. Notes are predominantly from the 2012 era with very few FZ_ prefixes so very frustrating.  I'm assuming from seeing 2 tellers on any given Saturday that bank traffic & demand for cash is at an all time low (thus the BoC doesn't need to release new notes).  At least that's been my experience out in the burbs of GTA (Ontario).

August 11th finds, part 2.
A country drive pays off!

After finding notes in the city on the morning of August 11th, I headed out for a drive.
I stopped at a bank in a small town east of Toronto and they had no notes, but the friendly teller was nice enough to give me $226 worth of old nickel dollars and 50 cent pieces and $9 in penny rolls!

The baggies of coins have scraps of paper with the number of “silver” dollars in them…

The person who deposited the pennies must have printed their own penny wrappers…I have never seen this pattern before.
Enjoy!
Dean

I've been watching the SNDB, and all the FFG notes to date (only 8 so far) seem to be found in QC.

Hi,
Last thursday I found two 10$ FFG4718585-4718586 I think it will have all the serie coming out??
About the 50$ I do not see a higher prefix after HHA with Lan-Rog?It rest a lot of prefix to going out before Lan-Rog??
Claude

August 11th finds:

I was out running some errands and I popped into a bank that I don’t normally go to.  To my surprise, the nice teller sold me 11 rolls of pennies.

Enjoy!
Dean

Good Evening,

I entered by accident $5 banknote of INS 3887393 39/39, the actual note is INR 3887393 39/39.  Could you please correct this mistake.  INS to INR.

Much appreciated, Whitenite