Picture of $100 UV

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For those of you who don't have UV here is a picture.

Hi,
maybe this is in the wrong section, but it's relevant to this post...
All of the 5 EJE notes I have (4988038-42) as well as the one EJA note DO NOT have the UV coat of arms on it.  There are lots of those fibres that show up though.  Are my notes worth a premium then?

Dean.

The above picture is how they're supposed to look under UV.  There is NO UV coat of arms on the $100s.  Only a two-colour "100" and the words "Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada"

OOPS, Sorry,  What I meant to say was that there are only the little flecks that show up under UV light. No large 100, no Bank of Canada or anything else.

Thanks,
Dean.

Now THAT would be interesting indeed!

If you can, create a photo of it and send it in.

Interesting you should bring this up. I recently bought an incandescent uv blacklight (75 watts) and the same thing happened. No hidden '100'. However, when I used my fluorescent UV, the hidden '100' shows up nicely. It might have something to do with the energy level needed to illuminate the ink. With the incandescent uv light, only a few of the fibres fluoresce.

Lenny

The incandescent "black lights" are not real ones, they're just a dark purple. Only the fluorescent ones are the real thing.

Most interesting!  The El Cheapo LED thing that I've got did a half-a$$ed job with the Journey $5 and $10, (ie: you could see the blue UV ink), but all it does to the $100 is illuminate the yellow fibres.  Not even a trace of the UV ink lights up.

The full-fledged fluorescent tube puts on a marvelous show and fully lights up both red and yellow fibres and the red and yellow ink.

Wal-Mart has the 18" fluorescent ones for under $20.  They're also great for house parties