Please be reminded of the What's It Worth rules. If you look at the stickied post at the top of that forum you will find:
...we're also not here to save you from buying book. If you have more than few notes... well, hopefully the point is taken.
In other words, please buy your own Charlton books. We are not here to re-publish the book electronically, and furthermore, doing so even in part is not something we want to do to our very good friends at the Charlton Press.
Please buy your own 18th Edition books. They are very reasonably priced at $19.95 each. Many dealers have them by now. They will also be widely available at the CNA convention in Calgary next week.
It seems that this happens every year, around this time of year, when the new issues of Charlton's come out.
Would the forum have any suggestions to reduce the stress this causes to the members and/or the moderators? Of course, other than, as BWJM would probably say, to stop doing it?
Off the top of my head I can think of two:
1) The moderators can put up a
temporary thread each year, where you can go wild and ask for as many prices as you wish, but only between July ?? and July 31, with the understanding that nobody is obligated to give you the prices you ask for, and you won't bug people for prices if they don't give them to you.
2) Members with current copies of the catalogue who are willing to give out prices can tell us to PM them, so that members can do this between themselves and not clutter up the forum with excessive posts.
I am thinking that either of the above two measures could be used
temporarily (i.e. only for two weeks or so) until the end of July or early August while we each seek out our own copies of the catalogue.
Here's another idea:
3) You can go to the J&M's Jewellery & Coin shop website and search through their banknote price lists. Link to the site:
https://www.jandm.com/defaultsecure.htmYou should click the
blue "
Catalog" button at the top lefthand corner of the page [
not the green "
Catalogue Info" button] and take it from there by scrolling down the left-hand side of the page to "Canadian Bank Notes".
The values correspond more or less to Charlton's prices. They don't thoroughly break down their prices to cover all prefixes - but it will give you a good idea of the market value for your notes if you don't have the Charlton's book for a given year. If there are also coin collectors among us (mutants!
) you can also use this site to price your coins.
Of course, if my ideas would get us into hot water with Charlton's and/or J&M's I'm sure a moderator will slap my wrist accordingly and we'll just forget the whole thing
To be honest, I will not buy a catalog this year. I am not adding any more notes to my collection in the near future, and I don't intend to sell any of my collection, so for me buying a copy every other year will be sufficient. Naturally in those years that I don't buy a catalogue I will be curious to see how my more valuable notes have (hopefully) appreciated in value, so I will ask for a few prices. I see nothing wrong with this, as long as I am not piggish about it and use this forum to value my ENTIRE collection every year.
