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Canada
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Picked up this beautiful 1988 Thiessen-Crow $1000 note the other day. Centrefold and a few minor edge creases, but otherwise nothing to complain about. The pinkish-purple hue is just amazing in person! Fun fact: Although the last prefix series of this note was issued in 1991, the Bank of Canada did not pull the $1000 bill from circulation until late 2000. As of today, there are still just over 900,000 of these notes that are unaccounted for! You can see why these notes were favoured by criminals. One million dollars worth of this denomination would weigh just 1 kilogram.    Edited by ap1991
09/21/2014 7:06 pm
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Valued Member
Canada
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awesome! I'm still trying to get my hands on one of these. It's nice to know there are still that many out there!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1132 Posts |
I've never seen the Canadian $1k note before today. Thanks for sharing  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1980 Posts |
i love the look of canadian money
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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i love the look of canadian money Yeah me too... especially if it's in my pocket.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
867 Posts |
That line about "favoured by criminals" is just RCMP bs.....it's forced us to use credit cards for higher value items, forcing us into 3% "inflation" for the extra fees.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
532 Posts |
I once had two of them for a financial transaction as a teen. Wish I could have kept one.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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tripoli: don't buy into the conspiaracy theory....
Truth is you can still go to the bank and take out any large sum of cash if you choose..
Truth is though it makes it a little more difficult to make very large cash transactions...
1 million dollars is 100 bundles of $100 notes... pretty hard to move 10 bricks..
1 million in pinkies is 10 bundles... which is something that's actually very easy to carry and conceal on a person..
When it's harder to make a cash transaction it means that there's a better chance for a paper trail...
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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back in the 90's before debit cards were everywhere and before credit card vendor rates were at an acceptable % we used to take a lot ( A LOT ) of cash.
at least once a month someone would make a purchase using 1 or more of these (more mature or old world individuals rather than criminals). not as uncommon as people think.
honestly though, criminals deal in $20s and $50s - it's what they get paid in and don't bring a lot of attention like $1000 would.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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It was not criminals using these notes. It was real people just paying cash! The old fashioned way. These notes used to used all the time at coin shows.
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Canada
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The reverse of that note, is by far, the best of the bird series...
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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1 million dollars is 100 bundles of $100 notes... pretty hard to move 10 bricks.1 million in pinkies is 10 bundles... which is something that's actually very easy to carry and conceal on a person. Easier still is the diamond. At 142 carats per ounce, you could fit a million dollars worth of diamonds in a pack of cigarettes. With no stamp bearing one particular government or another they are a stable international currency that are not subject to government devaluation. It is because of this that they are also widely accepted by the world's most prominent financial institutions as collateral for loans. Diamonds are by far easiest way to "physically" move currency. Just ask the cartel. If you ask my wife, they are also the world's easiest way to get your meals cooked and your house cleaned.  Edited by CopperCastle
09/22/2014 01:07 am
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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A criminal is going to set off alarms trying to spend those suckers. The authenticity is going to be questioned as well. If I were a criminal I would counterfeit these the most to use in underground transactions, but certainly not for legitimate transactions. I don't buy the concealability aspect of it because a person with $1M in cash also has the manpower to move anything short of a nuclear missile. Maybe I'm wrong, though, and most of these notes are sitting in Swiss bank accounts.
Wade is correct. Money travels upwards in the drug rings, so the street corner runners deal with lots of 5, 10, 20, and the wholesalers see lots of 20, 50 and 100. It's simple if you think about it.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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I knew someone who had just over 250 pinks when he died. He never worked an honest day in his life. Every one was obtained illegally or underhandedly. They were definitely favoured by this criminal.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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never knew you knew my Uncle Horace ?  LOL!! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7840 Posts |
Very colorful and beautiful design.
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