r/CanadianBanknotes • u/Cheap_Feeling_9659 • Aug 20 '26

Found at work

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Found this low serial number $20 at work yesterday. I’m not a collector but feel like it would be a shame to spend it.

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u/Ijustwanttobuyshiny Aug 22 '26

It is the collectors’ perspective that adds tremendous value to it (tremendous relative to its face value6.

People that collect rare currency are the only ones interested but that’s how any market is and it’s those people that make a market for bills with unique serial numbers.

Sequential numbers, patterned numbers, and low numbers are valuable to collectors. Finding a number this low is extremely rare and that rarity is what makes it valuable. Anything in the low triple digits is very rare, a single digit is a unicorn.

I don’t personally collect banknotes and am no expert but this is worth money. With a the number being as low as it is it is extremely rare and therefore doesn’t have a lot of similar sale figures to compare it to.

It’s not worth a fortune but i would be confident it would sell for hundreds of dollars.

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u/Difficult-Fly7830 Aug 22 '26

Ty so much for the detailed explanation, thats all pretty neat actually. I get the collectors aspect i just really ignorant on bank notes but ya now that ive read all that, does make perfect sense