Dean’s finds

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Hi everyone,

Last Friday the 13th of December, I got lucky instead of getting bad luck where my friendly bank branch in the Ottawa Valley called me as they have received a number of paper banknotes.  It was an interesting find and I am very lucky to have bank tellers to call me that there is paper banknotes to be had.  In this find, I got the following.

1)  A number of UNC to AU 1986 $2 banknotes.  Some of these banknotes are choice UNC, imagine that!!
2)  A 1975 $100 banknote with the prefix AJX in decent shape.
3)  A 1973 $1 banknote with the prefix AFF which is the steel engraved banknote as there was split with this prefix between steel and litho.
4)  A 1971 $10 banknote with the prefix EEV which is the steel engraved banknote as there was split with this prefix between steel and litho.
5)  A 1986 $2 banknote with the prefix BGJ where there is a mismatch B's between the first and second serial number.  This is the 2nd time that I got a mismatched B for the prefix BGJ from this branch.

Enjoy the pictures and keep asking your bank for paper banknotes.  You never know what you can find.

Best regards, Whitenite

Hi Whitenite,
Thank you for the information about the 2$1986 large''B''.Do not stop to share your discovery with us.

Claude

December 20th finds:

I stopped by one of my banks on the way home today and picked up these three journey notes.  The $100 EJZ 9164904 is the new high number in the SNDB and the AAD $5 is a changeover prefix.

Enjoy!
Dean

Awesome finds you are getting Whitenite and Dean. Keep up with the hunts as you may find something rare, special serial number and more!

I found my first ever $5 replacement note, the condition is not that good and I didn’t even know it was a replacement note until I entered it into the SNDB. Without the SNDB existing I would’ve probably release it into circulation

Awesome finds you are getting Whitenite and Dean. Keep up with the hunts as you may find something rare, special serial number and more!

I found my first ever $5 replacement note, the condition is not that good and I didn’t even know it was a replacement note until I entered it into the SNDB. Without the SNDB existing I would’ve probably release it into circulation

Nice find. Yes without the SNDB it would be very hard to spot these notes, a reason why many collectors  will stay away from these and stick only to the identifyable replacement X and * notes. I really miss those days!

Good Day, eh!

Finds from my friendly bank in the Ottawa Valley on Friday December 20th where Santa Claus has come to town!!  I got another call and here is my latest finds.  Here are the noteworthy banknotes!!

1986 Bird $5 EPC with a Crow/Bouey signature, prefix changeover
1991 Bird $20 EIJ without serifs which is a nice find
1954 Devil's Face $1 T/A which is the end of the Devil Face run, imagine that!!!
1937 $1 banknote, Gordon/Towers
1954 Modified $1 banknote

Enjoy the picture and please got to your friendly bank branch as there are many people depositing banknotes at this time where they do not know the real value of these banknotes.

Happy Holidays, Whitenite

December 23rd finds:  Main Branch madness!

I visited the main branch yesterday and the teller offered me some circulated $2s and a birds $1000 note.

There’s a Crow Bouey signed AUJ $2 and a BGH $2 with two small “B”s.

Enjoy!
Dean

December 27th finds:

Coin roll hunt…silver score!

I went to a couple of banks today and picked up some coin rolls.
I got $22.50 in penny rolls and some dime rolls.
Eight of the dime rolls came from one bank while the second bank would only give me three rolls of any denomination I wanted because I didn’t have a business account.  This is the first branch where I have encountered this restriction.

I asked the teller at this branch if I could pre-order a box of dimes.  Again, I was refused because I didn’t have a business account.

None of my other banks have restricted how many coins I can take.  I wonder why this branch is so stingy with its coin rolls?

Anyway, the dime rolls from the first bank were more interesting.  I managed to get a whole bunch of lustrous dimes from the 80s and 90s, including a couple of 1991 and 1990 dated dimes.  Best of all, I pulled two silver dimes, one dated 1964 and a 1967.

I was relieved to finally be back on the silver after coming up empty for awhile.

I took some cash from the bank machine and an interesting note popped out, BSB 0888000.

Enjoy!
Dean

December 27th:  Coin hunt summary.

Over the past few weeks, I have hunted

Two boxes of quarters
One box of nickels
And 4 and a half boxes of dimes

This is what I found.

Highlights:

Six silver dimes, (4x 1967, 1961, 1964)
One nickel from 1945
Over $14 in US coins
A decent amount of pure nickel nickels, including one elusive 1970 in nice condition.
Several coloured commemoratives including the elusive 2015 coloured poppy.
Several mint condition millennium quarters and Canada 125 quarters.
A 1967 rabbit nickel (these seem to be hard to get in circulation)
A few 12 sided nickels.

A 100 won coin from South Korea
Some European coins
Coins from Singapore, the UK, the Cayman Islands and Jamaica.

I am not sure what to do with the commemorative coins; the more boxes I search through, the more of them I find, but nobody seems to want to buy them.

Enjoy!
Dean

the second bank would only give me three rolls of any denomination I wanted because I didn’t have a business account.  This is the first branch where I have encountered this restriction.

I asked the teller at this branch if I could pre-order a box of dimes.  Again, I was refused because I didn’t have a business account.

None of my other banks have restricted how many coins I can take.  I wonder why this branch is so stingy with its coin rolls?

Sadly, this has become a common practice here in Germany. You only get one or more rolls if you have a business account.
Cash is hassle for the banks these days. Hence they make it difficult to get -- especially coins. 

Eight of the dime rolls came from one bank while the second bank would only give me three rolls of any denomination I wanted because I didn’t have a business account.  This is the first branch where I have encountered this restriction.

I asked the teller at this branch if I could pre-order a box of dimes.  Again, I was refused because I didn’t have a business account.

None of my other banks have restricted how many coins I can take.  I wonder why this branch is so stingy with its coin rolls?

In my city where I live (Toronto, ON) I never had that issue with TD Bank and CIBC. I don’t know why we need a business account to get coin rolls. I see on YouTube most Canadian coin roll hunter gets bundle of coins, nickels, dime, quarter, loonie and toonie to search without any issues.

I took a break from coin roll hunting because I already have enough coins and most of my special coins come from circulation or friends and family. Also I have been focusing more on collecting banknotes and entering them into the SNDB.

In my city where I live (Toronto, ON) I never had that issue with TD Bank and CIBC. I don’t know why we need a business account to get coin rolls. I see on YouTube most Canadian coin roll hunter gets bundle of coins, nickels, dime, quarter, loonie and toonie to search without any issues.

I also live in Toronto and I never have any problems getting rolled coin from any bank. CIBC, RBC, TD, BMO and Scotiabank all give me rolls whenever I ask.   Sometimes they have enough in stock to give me full boxes of circulated coins but I would always say that I would take as many rolls as they felt comfortable to give me so the branch is not short of coins for "normal" customers.  It's only this one particular branch of RBC that has the "three roll" rule for coins; none of the other RBC branches I visit have this limit.

As a courtesy to the branch, I would pre-order boxes of dimes and quarters but lately, when I place a bulk coin order, all I get are the white machine wrapped rolls of ARP coins.

So, I have had to resort to picking up smaller quantities of coins from multiple branches.  It's a bit of a pain but I'm in the branch to ask for paper money first and foremost.  The coins are just a bonus.

I have noticed that of all of the big banks, Scotiabank is the most reluctant to give out old paper money.  In fact, I have never scored anything from Scotiabank in terms of old bills but they have given me rolls of pennies in the past.

Dean

Global News in Toronto did two news stories on the fake toonie issue in November 2024 stating that the offender they caught was depositing full boxes of toonies into banks and I wonder if this might have anything to do with the increased difficulty for coin roll hunters now and in the future.  I don't think banks have a problem with giving them out, but the issue for them is the returning of the rolls back after they've been hunted.  My branches have started 'cutting into' the rolls to ensure that they at least have the coin edges they are supposed to and they take a few entire rolls apart when I return them.  They even did this to rolls that were in bank issued wrappers.  In this day and age when so called 'replicas' of all currencies are being produced and sold en-mass on the internet all banks need to step up their game in protecting our monetary system from fakes and frauds as it's only going to get worse.  Canada's 'gullibility/naivety' is glaringly obvious to every criminal faction around the globe right now where we have used "the honour system" for so much that it is now resulting in our law enforcement and justice systems being over-whelmed.

Breanna

New Year’s Eve coin hunt:

I figured I’d take one last shot at finding silver in 2024.

Wish me luck!

Dean