your most unusual find

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Hi everybody

Just wanted to know what was your most unusual find, it being just one note being UNC/used, being in a brick, or in a bundle.

One of mine was while beachcombing, finding an AOB insert on the beach.  

I once withdrew $300 in 20s from a Royal Bank ATM.  When I got home I realized there was a $100 in the middle of the pile, which now totalled $380.  Now sure how that happened but as the monopoly dude says, "bank error - my favour".  

moneycow

A plain small brown unmarked small tattered envelope that was difficult to sweep up, it contained a worn 1749 Spanish 8R silver piece found in a pile of floor sweepings while cleaning up after a large local coin show back in the 90's. Otherwise nothing unusual in the banknote end I can think of.

PD

I once withdrew $300 in 20s from a Royal Bank ATM.  When I got home I realized there was a $100 in the middle of the pile, which now totalled $380.  Now sure how that happened but as the monopoly dude says, "bank error - my favour".  

moneycow

That's funny because the opposite happened to me last month.  I withdrew $80 from a BMO ATM and I got three $20 and one $5!

My most unusual find was some time ago around 1976. Iwas buying banknotes from local people, after advertising in the newspapers, and on one such ocassion I bought a wallet that had several notes in it.
 I paid a fair price for what was contained therein and went on my way. I was doing a lot of buying in those days.
It was a couple of months later that I was going through the notes that I had bought, to house and catalogue them properly,  I noticed a flap in the billfold container part of the wallet. I opened it up and much to my surprise I found a 1954 Devils Head asterisk note, now known  as BC-31aA.
I couldn't remember who I bought it from but in the over all picture it didn't make a lot of difference because a year later I was displaying notes for Canada Coin week at a Mall Show and during the show it vanished.
Live and learn.