1924 Bank of Nova Scotia $5 UNC

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Dear members

I would like to ask about the scarcity of the 1924 Bank of Nova Scotia $5 in UNC. I purchased this note several years ago and recently received news from PMG that is grades PMG GEM UNC 65 EPQ. The best example I have seen recently is a VF/EF and few have been offered. I am aware that the note is too common in lower grades to be included in the register but I am very curious on these higher grades. I will gadly post some scans once it is returned to me from PMG.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Cheers

Jason

Undoubtedly a "Trophy Note" and a fair bit scarcer than the 1929 issue! Congratulations, Jason, on locating on yet another beautiful Canadian gem.

I agree with your implicit suggestion that it would be useful to establish a register of notes that may be quite common in VF and below but are very rare in the very highest grades. Another idea would be to create a listing of "the finest known" surviving example of every note issue.

Fricke has such a listing for the 10 highest grades for each of the Confederate note typs so this would be a similar project and something useful to know about for more common notes that are rare in high grades.