Grandma left me these...

News: Welcome to the Canadian Paper Money Forum.

I've been interested in collecting Notes for a while now, but as a student, the ones that have caught my eye have been worth a lot. And to be honest, I'd rather eat.

Anyway, my grandmother just passed and she happened to leave me two notes.

I assume that, to most of you, this is an extremely common note, but I love it. I was just wondering about it's condition and possible value. It's the condition I'm most concerned about though. I scanned it. It's a January 2nd 1900 Dominion of Canada 25 Cent Bank Note. It's extremely crisp.

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Royal Bank of Canada, 5 dollars : July 3, 1933. Now this note is in pretty rough shape, I'm not sure what you'd call it to be honest. With this one, I honestly couldn't find it anywhere online. Now this may be because of poor search skills or a lack of knowledge in where to look online, but I really couldn't find it. Searching through a couple of the threads here, I did manage to find it in the Bank of Canada Currency Collection, so I found out it is a real note. But could any of you guys give me some information on this note? Value if any? I also have a scan.



Thank you in advance for any information that you can provide for me.

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Welcome to the forums! Your 25 cent note, often referred to as a Shinplaster note, is very very pretty =) Without seeing the note up close I would say proabably betten EF and AU condition. That would mean somewhere in the range between 80 and 150 value.

As for the chartered bank note I have no clue and will let a member that is more familiar with them give their opinion.

Thank you for the reply. Nice to know.

Also, here's a larger version of the images above in case you need to see more detail. The most notable negatives are the bottom right corner seems to have been bent at one time and it's off center.

25 Cent Note
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The Royal Bank of Canada note is a good one.  It's from the last issue of large size notes from this institution.  The 1933 notes were not printed for very long before the bank was required to switch to a smaller format in 1935.  I wouldn't characterize the 1933 notes as rare, but they are certainly lower in surviving numbers than the earlier 1927 series and the later 1935 series.  Consequently, the catalogue value for your note is higher.  I would grade your note Fine, but the soiling/staining drags down the appearance and hence the value.  The current catalogue value in Fine condition is $250, though I think that, realistically, you would not achieve more than $150 for this note.  As more of these notes hit the market, I don't think the catalogue value will be going up any time soon.

Thanks BWJM for switching those, I wasn't really up on the whole imageshack thing. I never would have thought of it.

Thanks for the info mmars. I know it's in pretty rough shape but I still think it looks cool. I have no intention of selling either of them.

So the Royal Bank note would be Fine and the Dominion of Canada note would be AU or EF?