Post your vintage photos...With vintage currency in them!

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Hi,

I've posted a few photos that I've found online of vintage photos with people handling vintage currency.

Let's keep them all in the same thread from now on!

I found this photo online.  The caption reads:

Looking back to a visit to Agincourt A&P in this image from the Scarborough News Photograph and negative collection from 1966.
Pictured from left to right; Mr. and Mrs Ted Manley, Cashier Viola Sellwood, Mr. Brown, manager, Albert Maud.

I can see two 1954 $10s and four 1954 series $1s in the hand of Albert Maud.  The most visible 1954 $10 note appears to be signed by Beattie and Rasminsky.

One thing's for sure; $24 would certainly not buy that many bags full of groceries in 2025!

Oh, and the two kids look absolutely thrilled to be in the photo.   

Enjoy! 
Dean

Historical undated photo from the National Film Board of Canada archives.  Caption below photo reads:

BURNING UP MONEY AT THE RATE OF $1,000,000 A DAY

"Sixty thousand dollars in bills of various denominations are bundled up in that armful held by Marian Rice, one of the girls in the currency destruction department in Ottawa.  Used money is burnt and goes into the furnaces at the rate of one ton a day.  Last year the bills burnt were worth over $62,000,000."

* Looks like all the currency being destroyed in the picture is 1937 issue or before.

Those used banknotes from 1937 series are in better condition than the current polymer $5 banknotes which are not accepted by the ATM's when trying to deposit these banknotes back in your bank account. By the way, I found Scotiabank followed by BMO for rejecting polymer banknotes but RBC still accepts the Bird paper banknotes with the their ATM's.

My observations, Whitenite

Secondly, I can remember as a kid in Etobicoke in the 1960's where the cashiers at A&P did wear those uniforms.  The A&P at Kipling and the Dixon Road strip mall, was strict with the uniforms as a number of buddies worked at the store.  Thanks Dean for digging up that picture as it brought back memories and when coinage was silver!!

Best regards, Whitenite

Those used banknotes from 1937 series are in better condition than the current polymer $5 banknotes which are not accepted by the ATM's when trying to deposit these banknotes back in your bank account. By the way, I found Scotiabank followed by BMO for rejecting polymer banknotes but RBC still accepts the Bird paper banknotes with the their ATM's.

My observations, Whitenite

I find that Scotiabank ATM doesn't accept the worn polymer $5 but the worse is the Scotiabank ATM not accepting new uncirculated banknote which I have to fold the bill multiple times to make the ATM accept my cash. I wonder if other people are experiencing issues where the ATM doesn't take their cash and spits it out?

January 23rd:  Stacks of brand new 1937 notes

I saw this photo on the Bank of Canada Museum's website.

Look at all of those crispy 1937 notes...How much would they be worth today if someone had them in an original bundle?

Enjoy!
Dean

January 27th:

This photo depicts a treaty payment on a remote reserve.  Image courtesy of the Bank of Canada museum.

See the stacks of 1954 $5s on the table?

Enjoy!
Dean