1973 $1 BC-46bT, Crow-Bouey, Test Note

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1973 $1 BC-46bT, Crow-Bouey, Test Note

Post by William Fowler » Sat Apr 01, 2023 4:24 pm

Picked this up this week. What do they mean by "Test Note" ? Just wondering and can anyone be allowed to own these?
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Re: 1973 $1 BC-46bT, Crow-Bouey, Test Note

Post by coinguy » Sat Apr 01, 2023 7:36 pm

A test note is exactly what it says.
The BOC was wanting to try out things such as better inks, different types of paper etc.
to see if they could improve the quality of the notes. They were then issued to the public
to check for durability. Some of these are rare but in your case there were 600,000 printed.
It should still be worth a premium though.

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Re: 1973 $1 BC-46bT, Crow-Bouey, Test Note

Post by William Fowler » Sat Apr 01, 2023 9:55 pm

Thank You coinguy for the information, that is pretty cool.

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Re: 1973 $1 BC-46bT, Crow-Bouey, Test Note

Post by Nota_phil » Sun Apr 02, 2023 10:00 am

Very nice tough test note! Nice grade too!
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Re: 1973 $1 BC-46bT, Crow-Bouey, Test Note

Post by William Fowler » Sat May 20, 2023 8:46 pm

Nota_phil wrote:
Sun Apr 02, 2023 10:00 am
Very nice tough test note! Nice grade too!
Thanks I have not seen any of this type of Banknote out there. I seen alot of the prefix AXA though.

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Re: 1973 $1 BC-46bT, Crow-Bouey, Test Note

Post by Nota_phil » Mon May 22, 2023 10:29 am

There are a few out there: they're just uncommon, tough, possibly borderline "rare," though I cannot say for certain. I just haven't seen many (in the 20 or so years I've been online). That's whats so great about the more recent series of CDN banknotes- many Multi colour, Birds & Journey rarities that US collectors haven't caught on to yet. It's not the case with the 1935,37 & 1954 Devil's Face as they love these & drive prices sky high.
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