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Valued Member
Canada
254 Posts |
A couple weeks ago, someone paid 2 polymer $20s that were sequential. I asked one of my managers to save it. I rarely ask this particular manager, partly because she doesn't quite understand why I want to purchase seemingly identical bills, and she stapled a note to the last time I asked her to save a paper $20. Sure enough, I exchanged the money and she had, again, stapled a sticky note  to the bills.  Are they still worth keeping just for fun? Other than the staple holes, they are definitely uncirculated. Do the presence of staple marks lower the grade to circulated? Unfortunately the pictures are not working... There is some sort of error when I upload the optimized images. I will figure this out later. SNs are FST 2730253-2730254 |
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Valued Member
Canada
158 Posts |
Unless the particular serial numbers / signatures are replacement bills or rare, I wouldn't keep them. If you just want nice new sequential bills, they are easy enough to find at the bank.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2519 Posts |
I don't feel like it's worth saving polymer bills, not even crisp sequential ones. ATMs give those out. I don't keep anything pre-Journey series.
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Valued Member
70 Posts |
Staple marks are absolutely devastating!
Any destruction lowers the grade.
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Forum Kid
Canada
1074 Posts |
some people eh. thats disapointing. some banks don't have sequential notes, some do, this is due to freshly opened packs or old and mixed. Usually RBC has some.
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Valued Member
 Canada
254 Posts |
Ok. Then again only 2 sequential isn't that impressive. One's one digit off a repeater, but both will be spent now, sadly. I will have to remind my manager every time but I kindly asked her not to staple them in the future. I've only ever gotten two sequences from my bank mixed in with random notes, so I thought it was interesting to find a customer that paid with them still together.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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I withdrew $100.00 from my bank and received 5 new $20,s
in sequence. Didn't bother to keep them though.
Would take too long to obtain any value and are too easy
to get hold of.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Before the paper fives disappeared I grabbed a bunch of CU sequential ones from the casino. I just asked for some in sequence and the cashier gave me a funny look but handed my winnings over in fives. I put them away cause I knew the papers were getting withdrawn. They were winnings so kind of free.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3049 Posts |
In my honest opinion there should be no premium for sequential bills.. it only indicates that the notes have been together... that doesn't mean they're still UNC's
If you want a bunch of UNC sequential notes... go to your bank and order a bundle and don't put up with these stapled notes anymore... stapled notes will probably ruin any current issue to just plain face value unless it's a rarity.
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Valued Member
Canada
254 Posts |
May I ask how to order a bundle/brick fresh from the Bank of Canada? I think I did something wrong when, a few months ago, I asked for a bundle and they just counted 100 regular circulated $5s with a machine counter, even removing the paper ones; they said they wanted to give me some fresh new bills (and I was not smart enough to speak up), except only one bill looked uncirculated.
AgCoinAu, Good tip about getting sequential bills. I don't expect to profit from or even sell anything I keep, and sequential notes seem to be a hard sell. There's nothing special or uncommon about the bills so I have to sadly let them back into the wild. Plus it would irk me to look at money with staple holes but otherwise uncirculated.
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Valued Member
Canada
497 Posts |
I did a brick(1000 consecutive notes) search of journey series $5 once, there was a premium charged by the bank since it had to be ordered, otherwise I would have received non consecutive circulated notes like your bundle of 100. Not sure what is happening with the polymer notes but until recently it was very difficult to get more than a few consecutive uncirculated notes from the bank or machine, they might have been crisp, but were mixed prefixes or serial numbers. This seems to have changed, now I find many consecutive notes, today I got 8 $20 and all were consecutive.
I'm surprised your manager stapled the notes, this usually causes polymer to tear.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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To order a bundle at RBc you just ask the teller that you would like to order one bundle.... With a decent relationship with the bank they will let you do this approx once a month....no fee for one bundle .... But if you want a brick there is a $20 fee per brick (10 bundles)... Which sucks when you get a skunked brick.. It helps if you have a business that can write off banking fees to some percentage
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Valued Member
Canada
254 Posts |
West-canuck, yes I think that sequential bills are becoming very hard to find. They were probably common when they printed a large amount of notes when they first came out, but I haven't seen any in a long time. AgCoinAu, when you order a bundle, can you get those directly from the Bank of Canada? I have only heard about ordering bricks. When I asked, I don't think either the teller or myself knew what to do so she told me to come back in a few hours and got 100 $5s, but from the machine all circulated and mixed up. Also I don't have a business to write off fees if I want to get a brick  . I'm personally more concerned about withdrawing $5,000 or $10,000 from my bank and holding it for some amount of time than the $20 fee. A bit unfortunate but worth it for the experience. |
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