UNC$50 mismatch serial 9 bill series +PHOTOS

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Hi Folks, I found your forum today and am hoping that you can give me a realistic idea of just how collectible these bills are.

I will have photos hopefully later today and will post accordingly.

The details

100% UNCIRCULATED 9 bill consecutive series of 2004 Canadian $50 bills
2 digit mismatch from left side to right side on the first six bills
Bill #7 has a printing error on the third-from-last digit (only the top of the digit is visible, at the bottom of the line)
Bills 8, 9 and 10 are 3 digit serial errors as a consequence of the Bill #7 issue

Bill #10 is not in series, but it is two digits higher than the preceeding bill.

I know I should wait until I have the images so you can see what i'm talking about - but i'm wondering if this is even worth my time making up a mini webpage to accomodate the photos of the bills.

Should I bother?  Are these as rare as my few hours of searching say they are?    Current book value says at least $500 per bill, but i'm assuming that the series is something of a rarity.

Hopefully someone can shed some light on this for me.  Any reference links would be greatly appreciated.

thanks folks,

Sean K

Hey

  Must be a great set someone on this site had one $50 6 digits were missmatched he wanted $600 but it didnt sell. I would think that as a set would sell for around $2000 maybe a little more but I think you would make more selling them 1 by 1 people might pay 300-400 a note where as a set I dont see someone paying 2700-3600 but thats just me. Cant wait for you to post a picture

Arthur

Yes. Please post the pictures. I would also love to see them. Not everyday you can see errors in order.

I've finally got the images.  Please enjoy!  

Just to be clear, I got these straight from a CIBC ATM in St. Catharines, Ontario on Friday the 22nd.  I've tried to supply high enough res photos and a snap of the watermark in action to show authenticity.

{http://www.spk.ca/money/images/thumb_fullseries_nonoverlap.jpg}
hi-res image, 1.7MB, .jpg

{http://www.spk.ca/money/images/thumb_just_serials.jpg}
larger image, 36KB, .jpg

{http://www.spk.ca/money/images/thumb_fullseries_overlap.jpg}
extra large image, hi-res showing detail 4.8MB, .jpg

{http://www.spk.ca/money/images/thumb_detail_misfire_digit.jpg}
hi-res showing detail of bad digit, 1.9MB, .jpg

{http://www.spk.ca/money/images/thumb_watermark.jpg}
larger image, 427KB, .jpg

OH MY GOODNESS THOSE ARE AMAZING!!

Very nice find!!!    Everyone dreams of getting that kind of error for face value!  

Yes very nice are you sell?

Arthur

Hi Arthur,

Absolutely!  I'm definitely interested in selling.   Apparently there's a currency show in Oakville, Ontario this coming weekend so I think I'll probably bring them there to generate some interest.

Where would one go to find a collector who would be interested in a set like this?  

Wow!  Nice notes - you can see that there's also a missing digit in one of those notes.  Looks like the wheel alignment went wonky and the "9" spun around to blank and then to "0".  

These will surely command a premium.  

Hey I am not sure about  a show in Oakville this weekend I live in Toronto. If you do sell there make sure you let us know how much you got for them thanks Arthur

I'm in the GTA as well.   My friend knows a guy who's trying to make a business out of currency dealing in Niagara Falls who told him about the upcoming show.   I'll dig a little deeper to see what he's talking about.

Absolutely i'll be more than happy to let you know what they sell for - if they do!    I need to call a "Richard Branson" of currency collecting, I think.

thanks for the encouragement
s

I am sure you will find a buyer at any show there is a show in Toronto at the end of October if not many people on this site might be into buying them or you could try your luck on ebay

Arthur

Lets hope you don't have to sell them on ebay. Then you will have to pay all those fees.    I think you should find buyers for those notes easy. Their errors that everyone would love own.  

Well the current plan is to put them on Ebay with a fairly high reserve price and test the waters.  

Can anyone speculate about "just how rare" a series like this is?   I can't find any examples of this type of find online anywhere, but I'll bow to your experience and maybe someone here can point me to a similar find.

I'm thinking that an enthusiastic collector is the buyer that I'm after - someone who wants the bragging rights for his/her collection.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

thanks
Sean

Well the only set Something like this was 3 1988 $100's 3 Digits were missmatched and I think they sold over ebay for 2000$ now I could be off on that number dose anyone remeber? Also there are 2 1988 $100's on ebay now with the same error with 2 digits missmatched in a big auction with a estimate of 4500-5500$.

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