That's a product of some old fogie like eyevet who has bad eyes trying to expand the definition of a rotator note. He thinks that if he can squint enough, an upside down 1 might just look like a regular 1. He's wrong. (darn, the smilie for the scowl I am making right now is not available.)
Strictly speaking, a rotator note can only contain the digits 0, 6, 8 and 9. The centre digit must be a 0 or an 8, and the digits on either side must be the rotated equivalent of each other. For example, if you have 8960 as the first 4 digits, the last 3 must be 968. I wrote a full-length article on the subject for the CPMS newsletter. It is available on my website for interested readers.
This "presbyopic" rotator is a much looser definition of a rotator note, as defined by all those individuals who want to take an ordinary note and say that it's something special and worth paying tons of money for. They tend to include digits such as 1, 2 and 5 in the mix. But this is not valid because if you flip any 1 upside down, it is clearly not a 1. This is true for any Bank of Canada series since 1935. A similar remark about 2s and 5s. Don't listen to anyone who tries to convince you that this kind of note is a rotator. They're talking jibberish and trying to make some money off you. (I say that tongue-in-cheek knowing that it is directed mainly at eyevet!)
Stick to the true definition of a rotator and accept no imitations!!!
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BWJM, F.O.N.A.
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Treasurer, Waterloo Coin Society.
Show Chair, Cambridge Coin Show.
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