Macklem-Carney $5 and 410 notes

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The majority of the $5 Macklem-Carney that are being sold on Ebay lately are HAK prefix which doesn't reflect the numbers we have in the SNDB.

Actually the majority of the M/C notes reported in the SNDB are in fact HAK prefixesn and it has been documented in the SNDB.

If you go the SNDB home page with the High/Low colourful table of all the prefixes
And scroll below it to the 2nd last link

"Most Common Recently-Entered Prefixes (2 Months)" (which is labelled "NEW" )
and go to:
>Canadian Journey Notes
and select the
($5) link
-You will get a bar graph and if you bring your mouse over the CBN graph, you will see that 9 notes were recorded for HAG prefix while HAK shows 22 notes reported in the past 2 months.

Perhaps more importantly, many of the newly reported HAK notes fall within the first ream, i.e., in the range 0000000-0359999.

HAK was one of the scarcer M-C prefixes until recently.

That's kind of funny for me here. I've gone thru tons of used fives, I've seen most prefixes of 2011 fives but I've yet to see a HAK & HAJ and of course the elusive HAE2011 in my location.

Actually the majority of the M/C notes reported in the SNDB are in fact HAK prefixesn and it has been documented in the SNDB.

If you go the SNDB home page with the High/Low colourful table of all the prefixes
And scroll below it to the 2nd last link

"Most Common Recently-Entered Prefixes (2 Months)" (which is labelled "NEW" )
and go to:
>Canadian Journey Notes
and select the
($5) link


-You will get a bar graph and if you bring your mouse over the CBN graph, you will see that 9 notes were recorded for HAG prefix while HAK shows 22 notes reported in the past 2 months.

I was refering to the total of notes entered for each Macklem-Carney prefix but I agree that the stats about the notes entered in the last 2 months talks more than the total to explain what we're seeing on Ebay at the moment.

That's kind of funny for me here. I've gone thru tons of used fives.

It is hopeless here  because all I keep on getting is crisp 2010 notes and that too in sequential order. It seems that wherever I go used notes of all types are scarce let alone 2011 notes. 

An acquaintance at Where's Willy reports that his workplace obtained half a brick of HAK592____ in their weekly order from the bank. Perhaps there will be a flood of them over the next two weeks.

I think I know what's happening as of lately.  With the polymer $5 and $10 notes only a couple of weeks away from their first releases, and the BoC having so many crisp $5 notes in stock, I have a feeling that, during the final weeks of the Journey $5's, the BoC is likely aggressively clearing out as much of the unissued crisp $5 Journey notes as possible before the changeover to the new Polymer version.

It seems to be quite common that my local banks' final shipments of old issue notes are usually a shipment of crisp bills to close it off.  I have a feeling that my local Scotiabank will receive a shipment of crisp $5 and $10 bills as the official final shipment (if they do receive their final shipment within the final 2 to 4 weeks of the Journey era) pretty soon, if they haven't already.

I feel quite confident about the Polymer $5 notes coming to my local branch soon after its release, but the $10, I am totally not as confident, since the branch's shipment of $10 notes goes (much) slower, given the $10 notes' very low demand and how they don't buy anything except for Starbucks and The Second Cup items, items at a bar or pub, and fast food meals.

I think I know what's happening as of lately.  With the polymer $5 and $10 notes only a couple of weeks away from their first releases, and the BoC having so many crisp $5 notes in stock, I have a feeling that, during the final weeks of the Journey $5's, the BoC is likely aggressively clearing out as much of the unissued crisp $5 Journey notes as possible before the changeover to the new Polymer version.

  Basically these last 2 weeks (and maybe a few after the polymer release) will be do or die for those unreleased 2011 M/C 5$ notes (if they exist).

I have a feeling that we are going to be seeing many more 2011 M/C 5$ notes coming over the next few weeks.  It can't be a coincidence that I just got 2 HAK and 1 HAF today in change from a few different places after never getting a single one since like the beginning of the year   

Got another HAF today.  Weird anyone else seeing a sudden increase in the number of M/C 5$ they get in change/bank?

That's odd.  Since September 18th, there has been only 1 HAF note reported to the SNDB.  Whoever is finding them is keeping them a secret.

That's odd.  Since September 18th, there has been only 1 HAF note reported to the SNDB.  Whoever is finding them is keeping them a secret.

Now I wonder who that could be    

On a more serious note I finally got the time this week to post them go check it out!  I will usually enter notes all at the same time once a week or something so there may be a delay in what I post being entered in the SNDB 

Taking a look at the SNDB it appears the 2011 M/C 5$ paper notes now end near the end of prefix HAL as it says it is confirmed by the BoC.

Taking a look at the SNDB it appears the 2011 M/C 5$ paper notes now end near the end of prefix HAL as it says it is confirmed by the BoC.

I think the big question now is what they did with all the notes HAM-HAZ and HBA-HBG???

I think the big question now is what they did with all the notes HAM-HAZ and HBA-HBG???

I hope they didn't destroy them.  If they did print them and destroy them, that would be a lot of notes and quite a waste for the BoC and it would also mean no M/C polymer 5$ notes