$5 HBG Polymer Macklem-Carney Prefix

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Hi,
    Today I went to the bank to take the brick of 5$ I order all thursday,the cash teller told me she fogot to order extra 5$ to them and they take 4 bundles of my brick.It's O.K. I took the other 6 bundles but the other cash teller tell me she got somes circulated 5$ in her cash,I said how many you have ,she said one bundle(100) I take it.And what was asurprise I found Inside...5$ HBG  Mac.-Car. in F condition.#3333207 and a radar in the unc budle HBY4846484.I know the HBG it's a rare notes but can I have some information about this notes.
Thank you.

Claude

.I know the HBG it's a rare notes but can I have some information about this notes.
Thank you.

Claude

This is currently considered a rare note, one that many collectors are searching for. Range confirmed by bank of canada is 0000000-3619999. So far only a handfull of these notes have been reported and all within the 3M range. You have a nice find and you should hang onto that note. Personally i still think though this note is not as rare as it appears to be. I think that there are more out there and that people are hanging onto them. We will see as time goes on. But i have yet to find one myself and would love to have one as its the ONLY Macklem-Carney $5 note for that series in circulation.

Nice find!

But i have yet to find one myself and would love to have one as its the ONLY Macklem-Carney $5 note for that series in circulation.

Do you know of there are any for sale?

Do you know of there are any for sale?

None. One showed up once on e-bay and sold for around $200 if i remember correctly. Give it time. I expect them to start showing up gradually on the market.

There are now 27 M/C HBG notes in the SNDB. 

Hi,
   I would like to know about the HBG  Mc-Car why poeple looking for it?What kind of this note is?Only a change over signature?It's only in the futur we will know what's going on with?If someone would like to share information about it I'll apreciate it.And honestly what is the value for now??Some poeple told me keep it and wait,what do you think about that or maybe sell it???

Thank you take time to inform me.

Claude

Hi Claude,

I think many of us have searched thousands of polymer $5.00 notes and have failed to find a M/C signature combo (between 3.2 to 3.400,000 note). 

Mmars is the first to propose many good reasons why the M/C signature combo may be rare in another thread on the Polymer Signature change-over:
http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/forum/index.php?topic=13874.45 

Hope this helps,

W2W

Hi,
   Thank you W2W for the link it help me.

Claude

Hey Claude I found the "other" M-C HBG from Quebec, there are 28 in the SNDB of which TWO came from QC about a year apart. Now I'm inspired to order another brick...watch out tellers at RBC I'm gonna make you "work for nothing" again!

here's my M-C HBG graded EF-45 at BCS:

here's my M-C HBG graded EF-45 at BCS:

This is a really nice note! Out of the 28 notes recorded in the SNDB it may easily have the highest grade. Now after a year of circulation M/C HBG fives in this condition are less and less likely to be found.

After 6 months of searching through LOTS of fives I am finally giving up. There appear to be no M/C HBG notes here in Toronto. I did buy a VF-EF note from another forum member back in the summer.

I'm not so sure there are none left out there: if a few thousand were shipped and only 28 have been pulled (plus maybe a few found but not in the SNDB) I think the odds of finding one are the same now as they were a year ago. I have TWO bricks coming in next week, will post my findings!

Also I think 6 of the 28 were found in south western ON so the odds may be higher in your area.

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After 6 months of searching through LOTS of fives I am finally giving up. There appear to be no M/C HBG notes here in Toronto. I did buy a VF-EF note from another forum member back in the summer.
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Don't give up...I found one from a bundle of fives I picked up from a Scotiabank in downtown Toronto in October.  You never know when you'll find one...It's part of the thrill of hunting!

Dean

I have posted 3 on there from the Cambridge area and just got one a about week or so ago.  All have been very heavily circulated.  Finding one in EF or better is even more of a challenge.