FDU

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I went to the Bank of Canada Currency Museum in Ottawa on April 23rd. While I was there, I exchanged for 8 $5 Journey HOC bills - nothing special, no radars.  I also asked for 10 $10 Journey bills. I was expecting to get BER9999xxx notes as mentioned in this forum. This is what I got.

The first two bills were to my surprise:

FDU5532925, FDU5532926
$10 Journey Knight/Thiessen, Printed in 2000
FP44, BP40

The next one was not in uncirculated condition so I did not take it. I think it was a BER9999233.

The next 8 were:
BER9999234-241
$10 Journey Jenkins/Dodge, Printed in 2004
FP78, BP58

The 10 bills were taken out of the same brick of notes (it was wrapped with the brown narrow strip of paper).

I checked the brick to see if there was a BER9999999 but there was none. I also checked for other non-BER notes but they were none either.

What is the likelihood that these FDU notes were inserts of the original BER brick?

Henry

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I must agree with Hudson, but I might have an other explaination.
I went to the museum on april 9th, to get some $10 to my surprise there was none... The lady told me that they would get some the next tuesday.
So I went back on april 16th, still no brand new $10. The lady recognise me and felt bad. She told me that since the new $10 were about to be release, they might not get crisp $10 before the 18 of may. So I think the museum is getting any UNC $10 they can between today and the release of the new $10 so we might get some mixed up prefixes.

But I'm glad you went this weekend and report back here, I'll go this week before they are all gone  

In addition, FDU notes have been in circulation since spring 2001. Only FDU numbered notes above 9.24m are inserts.

don't worry about that. I think it's normal to receive FDU...I went to my bank last week in Montreal and I received NEW FDT and FEH...