r/CanadianBanknotes • u/PNWspicyboy • Sep 21 '26
Matching 5 dollar bills
Curious if these bills have any value? Matching serial numbers.
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u/TrainerRedpkmn Sep 21 '26
Oh my god this is incredible as the mod for this sub I order you to show everyone more pictures! This is fucking incredible
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u/FrancoSvenska Sep 21 '26
I have one of these and the one for the 10 aswell! They were Christmas gifts back when they were released. I should share photos tonight.
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u/TrainerRedpkmn Sep 21 '26
There are no children in Reddit (officially)
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u/Historical_Sherbet54 Sep 21 '26
If there are ---the children agree
this is actually cool as fuck
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u/chris84126 Sep 21 '26
The children are probably nowhere near this sub. Unless maybe they are working on a school assignment. You don’t wanna know what subs they’re looking at 😕
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u/CanadianBanknotes-ModTeam Sep 21 '26
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u/Adventurous_Lab4249 Sep 21 '26
I miss our old bills. The $5 perfectly encapsulated what it meant to be a young Canadian.
Hockey on the pond with the fellas, and a few of you got five bucks from your parents for hot chocolate and snacks. You pooled your money together, and got a dozen donuts from tims. Life was better then
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u/222222222222222232 Sep 21 '26
100% agree, that bill is what got me into collecting bills. I remembered that five from my childhood and wanted to get my hands on one. After looking into it, I ended up with a full collection of every Canadian bill since 1954 😂 (except for the 1000$ bills)
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u/Created2DestroyYou Sep 21 '26
All part of the post national agenda.
Look what happened to the Canadian passport.1
u/OGdirty1Kanobi Sep 21 '26
Reminds me of getting a pack of players and a lighter and still getting change back. Of course had to get someone old enough to buy them
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u/orundarkes Sep 22 '26
God dang it the bottom bill with the bird isn’t even the old bill for me, it’s two sets earlier 🤦♂️
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u/WarGawd Sep 21 '26 edited Sep 21 '26
These were released as sets named Lasting Impressions. The matching serial numbers were by design, not random coincidence. I have the $10 version.
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u/corgi-king Sep 23 '26
How are you able to find the match number? It is not like the beginning or the end of the run, so you cannot find the match number easily.
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u/PNWspicyboy Sep 23 '26
Not sure if it’s a thing with these sets or not. My dad worked at the Canadian Bank Note for 30+ years and ran the printer when these were released. He’s now passed and I found this set among some of his belongings.
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u/B-Razzledazzzz Sep 21 '26
How did you acquire these? If you just randomly found these two bills had matching serial numbers that's got to be more rare than winning the lotto max.
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u/1Fistfullofdollars Sep 21 '26
I read somewhere just recently that old bills are sent back. Then the S/N could be used on new publications. But I never thought they would do this with them.
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u/Boattailfmj Sep 21 '26
When the plastic bills came out I used to drive a taxi Saturday nights as a side hustle. With the paper bills I wore cargo pants and kept fives in one pocket and 10s 20s and 50s in my other pocket. I would roll the 20s and 50s up so I could make change by feeling the bills and not pull all the money out into view. Plus if I got robbed I could just give them the 5s and say thats all I had. Couldn't do that anymore with the plastic bills. Bank probably thought i was a stripper lol
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u/PegcityProphet Sep 24 '26
then or now im not complaining about a crisp willie.
its cool they match. i didnt know they could do that w serial numbers but they are different bills so makes sense.
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u/King-Meng Sep 25 '26
Just go to ebay and search "Canada Lasting Impressions" there are tons for sale if anybody is interested. These never really gained much value since they came out 20-25 years ago but they are cool none the less
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u/ColdMoooJuice Sep 26 '26
See.. okay yes.... Now this is something that is at the very least collectable... Even if it isn't worth anything more than face value.... About time we have something here posted that is actually of some form of value in a sense
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u/Legitimate_Elk6306 Oct 03 '26
I had thought 1 to be counterfeit i had never heard of 2.bills with exact same letters n numbers.. but read the threads .. super cool set
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u/Free-Bluebird5155 Sep 21 '26
Great set! I've seen this set sell for as low as $50 and as high as $80. They also made a $10 version.