Hey everyone! I'm kind of a novice when it comes to currency, so I need some help here. I received this when my Wife and I visited Niagra falls back just before 1995. Anyways, I just thought it was cool to own a $2 note from Canada and stored it away all these years. Now that the Queen has passed, do these or are these notes worth much monetarily? I'm getting values all over the place and just need a little help, please??
The Bird Series $2 was the last of its kind & had a long fairly problem-free run which means they issued them in the billions. Many non-collectors kept them too so that doesn't help their weak book value. The first Crow-Bouey ARX replacement had nearly 1.3M & there were 64,000 notes numbered above 1.34M that have a great premium. Below is a common ARX replacement with the 2nd Thiessen-Crow (nearly 1M printed). About 80,000 notes numbered below 1.34M were issued (which the example is not) & they're the ones to find Something odd happened at the end of the Crow-Bouey run with the last 7 (AUG-AUM) prefixes. Crow-Bouey signatures are the majority for AUG, AUH & AUJ but much later the odd Thiessen-Crow signature appeared with the AUG, AUH & AUJ prefixes. This was not expected so these scarce notes can fetch thousands in VG & higher condition. Crow-Bouey & Thiessen Crow with the above 7 last prefixes (majority) are a bit tough & can still fetch about $70-$90 in Choice to Gem UNC.
