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Canadian Notes Serial Prefixes - 2 Letters?

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 Posted 02/20/2009  01:06 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add wd1040 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
So... from my small set I rediscovered today, I found 2 $1 bills from the last series. But, one of the bill's serials was this:

NX 57 67 040, with small spacings as in previous.

Can anyone tell me anything about this? Like is this theequvalent to our star notes? I thought Canadian notes were always XXX1234567...
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 Posted 02/20/2009  06:23 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SHAFTA9a to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
hi, wd1040, Gee! that's weird, there shouldn't be any spaces in the serial #s, as you described.
Can you post a pic, I would like to see what it looks like.
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Hey Shafta9a, thanks for the reply! Here's the pics. I'm seeing a small space... but I don't know if they're normal for the 2 letter prefix notes...

Canadian-Notes-Serial-Prefixes---2-Letters?

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Canadian notes up to the mid-80s had a two letter prefix. Replacement notes were shown by the serial number being preceded by an asterisk (eg: *LP1974833). Around December or January of 1986 is when I first recalled seeing serial numbers with a three letter prefix, assumably because they had exhaused all two letter number combinations. From that time on, replacement notes were shown by the use of the letter X as the third letter in the prefix (eg: BBX9823398).

In regard to your two letter note, I appreciate that it may look as though there are spaces between the numbers, but there isn't -- that's just the font style of the numbers that were used in this series.

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