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Topic: 10M note, how can you tell??  (Read 6294 times)
AL-Bob
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« on: May 28, 2008, 11:36:31 pm »

How would you know if it was really a 10M note or just a 1M with an extra zero stamped on?  As I understand it, authentic 10M notes had the last zero added manually, so could anyone just add an extra zero at the end?

Don't mean to be paranoid but maybe if there was a registry of plate numbers with nearby notes to compare then we could tell?  Is there any list of known and authenticated 10M notes to compare with?

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BWJM
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« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2008, 12:24:51 am »

Unfortunately, plate numbers won't help much... In my own unrelated observations, plate numbers to not have a significant enough variation to be remotely reliable in determining whether a 1000000 (one million) note has been "raised" to a 10000000 (ten million) note.

You can rely on the fact that 10,000,000 notes were only used up to a certain point, and this information is available in the technical data section of the Charlton guide, specifically p262 (and others). For example, the last CBN $1 10,000,000 note had the prefix T/O, and the last BABN note was N/P 10000000. All 1967 prefixes featured 10,000,000 notes. So, if you see a Bouey/Rasminsky 10,000,000 note, you should view it with complete skepticism. A Beattie/Coyne 10,000,000 is far more likely to be legitimate.

Further, the CPMS has a registry of known surviving 1954 10,000,000 notes. I don't recall when it was last published, but I know it exists.

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Kelly b.
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« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2008, 09:45:10 am »

Sidebar:

I saw a ten million note this past weekend at a display that I did not know existed.  I will post more info in the near future under an appropriate thread.

Kelly

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jarod
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« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2008, 12:43:21 pm »

Hi everyone and BWJM

BWJM, thanks for sharing your knowledge.

I was browsing for million note and I found this.  It's not a legal tender, check it out.  Don't I wish if this is real.

http://cgi.ebay.com/CANADA-MILLION-DOLLAR-NOVELTY-NOTE_W0QQitemZ330212254924QQihZ014QQcategoryZ3425QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247

Thanks,
Jarod
 

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