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Specimen Note, Replacement Note And Test Note, Which One Is More Valuable?

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 Posted 02/06/2019  12:32 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add erdongdatian to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Which one is more valuable for collection purposes?
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All the same unless you put up some pics.
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The one with the least printed?
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Normaly the test note because it is printed in smaller quantity , and they are known many years after their issue, and the grade of the note is not high.
the specimen note is normaly UNC or better but issued directly by bank of canada,
Replacement note are not rare ,and was indentified for a long time with * or X than easy to identify. we have some exceptions like *wa 1969 20$ there are only two notes known and the value is between 9 000 and 28 000 canadian dollars

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Normaly the test note because it is printed in smaller quantity , and they are known many years after their issue, and the grade of the note is not high.


- all notes released into circulation are of much higher interest to me (than specimens- which are typically sold to the public by the issuing authority- in our case the Bank of Canada).

Re: replacement notes: there have been quite a range of rare ones issued by BOC.
Initially as Devil's Face (all * replacements are exceptionally rare since most weren't released they were only issued for 2 years).

For the modified 1954 there were several that were never found until much later- including *C/I & *V/V $1.00
*Z/Z for the $2

Besides the *WA $20.00 the 1969-75 issues also had:
*AA (above 5M) ; *AB; *FB ; *FH; *MD for the $1.00
*BC for the $2.00
*CA (above 3.28 M); *CB & *SB (above 1.6 M)
*DE ; *DX ; *DY (above 4M)
-some of these * replacement notes were not discovered till much later so the notes that were discovered have been quite circulated.

While it is true that the Birds replacement notes were designated by X in the serial number- eventually that practice was abandoned so replacement notes were no longer identified (so these were challenging to find).
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 Posted 03/27/2019  09:44 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Regent to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
to your list we can add the 2 $ 1974 RD*

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 Posted 03/29/2019  12:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Regent to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
But I have to admit you did a good job. I had problems to find one missing

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