Oddities

I was in the local RBC today and the Business Deposit Manager recognised me from the paper. She pulled out all these old ones and two and asked me if I wanted them before they got sent back. I said 'Of course'.

She also gave me a couple of 1954 series twos which I am saving and a handful of fifty cent pieces. Boy, the things you can get with just a bit of noteriety! She said to come in once a week and she'll save me any oddities she finds!!!!

One of the ones has a just two letters in the SN. Was this normal, or is it an error? OP69***30

you lucky sh*t. :) i doubt you'll get anything that's worth more than face value but those are still neat things to get your hands on, even if you just go and spend them. it's worth it for the looks you get.

i'm assuming the 1$ you are asking about was a 1973 (Lawson-Bouey)? OP was a pretty common prefix and they ran from OA-OV and made 190,000,000 of them. i think the Charlton catalogue # is BC-46a and would have to be in at least VF condition to be worth a premium (VF is $1.25)

if i'm off on this, please correct me someone!

Heh…it pays to know folks, eh! I once got a friend of mine from a bank to get me some two-dollar bills for my wallet (I miss seeing them!) and she got me some plus two old '54 series ones. No, 'fraid the two-letter prefix isn't an oddity…they used them up 'till the early eighties, I believe, at which point they introduced the three-letter prefix we still have today. I believe it was because they ran out of combinations for only two letters.