Fake Canada 1973 1 Dollar Inverted Error

Fake error $1 1973 banknotes are being sold on Ebay.  This is the second such note with exactly the same error to be sold.  The back of the note is inverted and mis-registered.  This is an exceptional error if correct.

Accurate with the Note


Charlton BC- 46a - $1 MY prefix matches the 2 Letter Lawson-Bouey combination.  There were 9,999,999 printed.

 
 
 
 

Wrong with the Note

No such errors have ever been recorded.  There have been mis-registered, off center print and there have been inverted printing but there never have been both.

The paper is too thin.  It looks almost transparent.  It looks like these notes were printed using a printing press the paper is not correct.

The notes are missing planchets.  These are the small circular dots which are randomly placed on the paper before printing.  There are usually at least 2 per note.  They can be scratched off to check if the note is real.  These notes are clean and have none.

Back of Canada 1 Dollar 1973 with Planchets

Front of Canada 1 Dollar 1973 with Planchets

Sri Lanka P123 2010 20 Rupees

Pick:  P123
Date:  2010
Colour:  Red on multicolor underprint
Monetary Authority:  Central Bank of Sri Lanka
Series: 2010 Dancers Issue
Printer: Thomas De La Rue & Co. Limited, London, England
Signatures: Mahinda Rajapaksa, Ajith Nivard Cabraal

Front:  Colombo port.  Shipping container loading crane.  Container ship.

Central Bank of Sri Lanka written in large Sinhala text.  Below in small Tamil and English text is written Centeral Bank of Sri Lanka.

"This currency note which is issued on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka is valid for any monetary transaction within Sri Lanka" is written in smaller Sinhala text.

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka recently stated in 2012 that it would change its policy and include the "This currency note which is issued on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka is valid for any monetary transaction within Sri Lanka" in Tamil text on future banknote issues.

Sri Lanka has never issued banknotes which included full translation of Sinhala text in Tamil or English text since the country implemented Sinhalese nationalist policies in 1956.

Back:  Dancers.

2013 20 Dollar Coin - Contemporary Art

This non circulating mintage coin was designed by Carlito Dalceggio born in Quebec in 1971.  The front of this coin features the artist`s contemporary version of native Canadian art.  It shows ancestors merge with the future in this round, tribal design that has no starting point because the ‘fountain of life’ never ends.

Year: 2013
Mintage:  7500
Composition : Fine Silver (99.99% pure)
Finish:  Proof
Weight:  31.39 g
Diameter: 38 mm
Edges:  Serrated
Certificate: Serialized
Face value:  20 Dollars
Artist:  Carlito Dalceggio (reverse), Susanna Blunt (obverse)
Issue Price: $89.99

Fake Canada $1 Dollar 1973 Mismatched Error Notes

Recently sold on Ebay for $105.10 + $12 shipping was a set of 9 Bank of Canada Multicolour 1973 series 1 dollar mismatched error notes.

The seller had them listed as:

TOP CONDITION UNC MISS CUT MISS MATCHED ONE DOLLAR BANK OF CANADA NOTES.MOST LIKELY OF A SHEET OF FORTY.ALL 9 ARE IDENTICAL MISSMATCHED TYPES AND ARE ORIGINAL BANK OF CANADA NOTES.

These notes are mismatched because they were cut from a uncut bank note sheet 40 x $1 which were sold by the Bank of Canada on December 12th 1988 to collectors.  The left side of belonging to one note from the sheet and the right side belonging to a different note on the same sheet.

The value of these notes to any collector of Canadian Paper money would not be more than face value of $9.

Collectors should be aware that $1 banknotes from 1973 with any errors are fake.

Fake error notes from these sheets have appeared as cutting or fold over errors.  Since these sheet were sold as collector sheets they were check by the Bank of Canada and it is highly unlikely that any ink errors were sold.

A total of 114,516 sheets were sold between December 1988 and June 1989.

BABN sheets were sold in a 5 x 8 format.  88,009 BABN sheets were sold.  CBN sheets were sold in a 4 x 10 format. 26,507 CBN sheets were sold.  These include replacement banknote sheets of BAX, and EAX.

The prefixes of the sheets sold were as follows: BFD, BFK, BFL, BAX, ECP, ECR, ECV, ECW, EAX.  The 2011 collector prices for these sheets in AU condition are between $150 to $450.  The replacement note sheets range in collector price from $375 to $800.

The notes that were cut and sold on Ebay came from a BFK sheet.

Canada $5 Dollar Double Star Hockey Stick Error Notes

Some of the Journey Series 5 Dollar bills that were printed in 2010 are different from the rest of the bills that were printed in the same year.

These notes are consistently missing ink on the back and occurs mostly happens with HP_ prefix.  It has been recognized in the 2013 Charlton Catalog.  These notes are definitely worth saving.

An Error note with inserts of the images from a regular note.  The hockey stick held by the number 9 player is also has two stars on the blade.

New Guinness Record for Largest Collection of Uncut Banknotes

Penticton man counting on new Guinness record

 

By Joe Fries - Penticton Western News
Published: July 20, 2013 2:00 PM

Under the scrutiny of a banker and a security professional, a Penticton man last week set out to smash his own Guinness world record for the largest collection of uncut banknotes.

Leigh Follestad is preparing to submit to Guinness the documentation necessary to confirm the new record of 212 sheets in 134 different denominations from 51 unique countries, numbers about double the current benchmarks.

He began accumulating coins as a boy, but it was an uncut sheet of US $2 bills he found in Hawaii that became the foundation for his collection.

“This is basically my baby since I was 10,” said Follestad, who owns the downtown Smart Shopper store.
The colourful collection, which includes rejects, proofs and special collectors’ editions, spans the globe, from Ecuadorian sucres to New Zealand dollars and Chinese yuan.

“Canadian money is just as good as the rest of them,” he added.

At first, Follestad found new additions through central banks, magazines and dealers, “then the Internet came along with eBay and that kind of thing and I started putting buying requests out.”

The collection, stored in a secret location, is now valued at tens of thousands of dollars.

He set the previous record in 2005 after lobbying Guinness officials to create the category. To establish the new record, he had to find two reputable community members to count the sheets of money and validate the submission.

Guinness “won’t send someone for this… but they’ll verify everything and contact these people and make sure that everything is legit,” said Follestad.

Kyle Gilbert, a CIBC business financial advisor who was one of the official counters, said the task was just a little bit outside his usual job description.

“It’s a first for me. I’ll do a lot of different things for clients, but that was definitely the first on the Guinness verification program,” said the 33-year veteran of the banking industry.

“This was quite different. Most entertaining, actually.”

Follestad expects to send off his application this week and hopes to find out by the end of the year if Guinness will accept the new record.

Qatari Collector Tries to Set World Record for Same Serial Banknotes

A Qatari currency collector wants to make it to the Guinness Book of World Records as the first man to collect banknotes from different countries with similar serial numbers.

During the launching of his exhibition at Katara Cultural Village, Hassan bin Ali al-Naimi told Gulf Times that his collections had notes with serial numbers 000001, 000002, 000003 and 111111 which he considers as rare and hard to find.

He now has more or less 10,000 banknotes collected from different countries (including the Gulf region) and 100,000 from rare currency with nominated number.  Al-Naimi disclosed that he travelled a lot, went to many banks and exchange companies to look for the banknotes he was collecting. “I also go to dealers and businessmen. I meet and tell them what I am looking for so they could help me find these rare items,” he said.
However, he admits his passion is costly, given the arduous task of searching and travelling from one place to another. “It takes a lot of time and a lot of money too,” he quipped.

The currency collector also held many exhibitions in different parts of the world: the biggest were in Brazil, London, Paris and Japan. He also organised similar events in Holland and Singapore before holding one in Doha.

“I think I am the only one doing this, a kind of collection with similar serial numbers. No one has done this before and I’d like to be the first one,” he stressed. Al-Naimi believes that many collectors focus only in getting the usual notes at the local level. He urges them to do it on a wide scale by travelling to many countries.

He started collecting when he was 16 although his parents were not into currency collection. He recounted that he used to tease and hate people who had this hobby “but later on I am one of the biggest collectors”.
“We are not a family of collectors, but now, I am a one-man show. I started it all,” he said. “I don’t know why I became interested in it”.

One possible reason he cited is because of his observation that collectors feel happy of what they do especially when they exert extra effort to achieve their goal. When they tell him: “See this number? I challenge you if you can get the same number from outside,” then he would go everywhere and look for it. “I struggle a lot to get it.”

He describes currency collecting as “unique and fantastic” hobby.

About his plans, he wants to get as many different, rare things and “fancy numbers” as possible.
About the challenges he encountered in pursuing his passion, he reiterates that currency collection is an expensive hobby.

“There are many dealers, businessmen and collectors who pay a high price to get it. So you have to have a nice amount of money to get it also,” he added.

Meanwhile, HE Sheikh Hassan bin Mohamed bin Ali al-Thani, the vice chairman of the Qatar Museums Authority, inaugurated four art exhibitions on Sunday including Naimi’s “Letters and Money” at Building No 3. On the same day, Katara has also opened the “History of Qatari Publications & Printing” and Maher Alsamarai’s ceramic exhibitions. It also featured Qatari artist Rashid Mubarak al-Muhanadi’s five paintings which were about the ideas of the Holy Qur’an, letters and Arabic poetry.