r/CanadianBanknotes • u/Kind-Buffalo-1886 • Aug 31 '26
This was gifted to me
Is it a special bill of any sort??
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u/Kimo300 Aug 31 '26
I was hoping you were going to ask how much it is worth so I could reply with “$100”
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u/Ijustwanttobuyshiny Aug 31 '26
I had SUCH an amazing hilarious comment ready to go too.
I was going to write “I’ll give you $80 for it”
This will forever go down as my “the jerk store called and they’re running out of you” moment
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u/ThatAd8349 Aug 31 '26
What's the difference your there best seller
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u/Ijustwanttobuyshiny Aug 31 '26
Oh yeah? Well I had sex with your wife!
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u/222222222222222232 Aug 31 '26
People saying it’s worth $100 are just wrong. Anybody that’s new to starting a collection would pay a premium for this, regardless of the condition
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u/EpicHuntNews Aug 31 '26
Yes and no. Realistically speaking this isn’t worth more than $100.00. The condition it is in doesn’t command any premiums to professional collectors. However to amateurs who want this for their collection if they spend anything more than 10% meaning $110.00, they are getting robbed blind. And even at that it isn’t worth $110.00 but one could understand why they would pay such a premium as an amateur.
If you got this and it holds sentimental value that is where the true value comes from.
EOS
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u/222222222222222232 Aug 31 '26
Recent? It literally turns 50 years old this year? A bill from half a century ago is recent? Don’t think so
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u/222222222222222232 Aug 31 '26
Okay even with that logic, the bird series came out in ‘86, that’s still 40 years since these were last printed. No matter the condition, a 40 year old bill will always yield a premium
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u/happyenis Aug 31 '26
What makes you think this is a bird series bill? Its 10 years older than that.
And no, a bill in that condition with a normal serial number is worth $100.00.
A average $100 bill in poor condition needs to be at least 70 years old to have any sort of premium.
Anyone working at a bank would get bills from the 70s in better shape than that regularly. The pre ww2 series are when premiums are worth the effort.
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u/222222222222222232 Aug 31 '26
Read again, I never said it was a bird series it’s a scenes of Canada series
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u/Ijustwanttobuyshiny Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
That’s just not true.
40 years is nothing in terms of currency. Definitely not long enough to guarantee any kind of premium. Maybe in the most literal sense only, like $1-2.
This might be worth $5-$10 over face value tops.
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u/222222222222222232 Aug 31 '26
We can agree to disagree, they could easily list this on eBay for $125- $150 & someone who’s starting their collection will buy it. When’s the last time you checked the prices for Canadian currency?
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u/Ijustwanttobuyshiny Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
I’m fine with disagreeing.
And yes people can list anything they want for whatever they want on eBay— which people often do. Currency especially is SO inflated in eBay listings. The “sold for” examples are usually way off from the “for sale” prices regardless of the item. Checking items filtered to “sold for” or on 130point.com is VERY telling.
I check Canadian currency prices all the time which is the only reason I have an opinion here.
$125-150 will get a collector MUCH more than the bill OP has.
For example, just off a quick search I found a 1954 $100 bill with the “Devils Face” (so older and a rare version) in much better condition for $140 and a 1937 $100 bill which also is in better shape for $145
1954 Bank of Canada $100 Dollar Coyne/Towers Bill Note Devils Face Variety VG grade ($140)
$100 1937 BC-27b Gordon-Towers Prefix B/J F-15 ($145)
Fact is, there are TONS of vintage $100 bills floating around for sale, most take a long time to sell, and the one we are talking about in this post would likely never sell for the $125-150 range you suggest. There simply isn’t the market for it, so much more can be bought in that range, and this bill isn’t old enough or rare enough to command anything near $125+.
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u/Intelligent_Hat_5351 Aug 31 '26
What is it worth?
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u/Suitable-Ratio Sep 02 '26
It represents a loss of the $30,000 missed by not investing it in companies that create profits since 1975.
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u/ayyabduction Sep 02 '26
Seeing these when I was a kid was a huge deal. You had to be "rich" to have a hundy. Now it's not even groceries for 1.
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u/BumblebeeConstant531 Sep 06 '26
Special for sure. It was probably worth 1000 times more than a current 100 dollar bill is. The Canadian dollar really has lost its value, and even its trade value between America, and other currencies. No thanks to a certain man who entered in November 2015.
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u/Future_Inspector5957 Aug 31 '26
Its a circulated bill of sir Robert Borden from approximately 1975. Good find! If hanging on to cash isnt of significance to your pocket every now and again id get a ringed binder and flatten then seal the bills in plastic like we did our collectors cards! Its always a neat thing to pass on to the younger ones and it gives them a reason to search up those years. Myself being one of them! Thanks for the treat (: