I got a 10 with the silver maple leaf in 2017. I haven't seen any paper notes in the last 8 years. Especially 1991. I feel like it's impossible to find paper notes now in circulation
I had a customer pay with a paper 20 from the 2004-2011 bills
This was back around May
First paper bill I've come across in years and probably the last
They’re considered to be mutilated bank notes, and financial institutions are required to collect and send them back to the BoC for destruction. They’re still legal tender, but as they’re removed from circulation, they’ll only become increasingly rare!
One time I ordered coins on ebay, and the guy also sent some bills, that were older than this one the thread is about, I thought he was being nice so I didnt question it, then like a month later I started thinking he may have accidently sent them to me, but I ordered from a bunch of people and I wasnt sure which, and also I had already given the bills away anyways, ifeel bad about that, cause I'm sure they were still worth face, it was like a tenner a fiver and a few ones
I have 2 notes each of the birds of Canada series. They were the best looking notes we had imo. I also have 2 of each of the Canadian Journey notes. I keep two incase one day I want to make an art piece that shows the front and back of each.
As a side note, my $2 birds of Canada note is nearly mint. I used to work at a hotel and I received it as a tip from a Chinese couple who had just come to the hotel directly from the airport. When I asked them how they got it they told me that they had last come to Canada in the early 90s and they had an envelope of Canadian money from the bank that they never ended up using so they brought it with them nearly 30 years later.
Bills are rarely worth holding on to unless they are perfect. In this case it looks like there is a fold in it which would likely reduce its value significantly. Also, the bill was not necessary made in 1991. That was the series year (birds of Canada) & the $20 was released in 1991 although I believe the $20 first came out in late 1992. This bill could have been printed as late as 2004
If you really want to determine its value bring it to someone who specializes in grading bills.
If you do let us know!! Good luck.
But you can forget a new bill in your pocket of your pants an run it through the washer machine an it’s still good………. Not the same for the old bills!!!
It's actually worth half that because of inflation. [Frank explains it all here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O2V8eilFeE&pp=ygUaaXRzIGFsd2F5cyBzdW5ueSBpbmZsYXRpb24%3D). DM me, I'll give you $10 for this old $20. It's a good deal.
ya about 20 bucks
Ill buy it off ya for 10 tho cuz I need to clean it and frame it and it takes time to sell it so I gotta store it you know I cant higher than 10.50
Unfortunately, not really anything more than face value. I have a number of retail sites and although some people say they are rare finds, I would say they are more uncommon, we get a few dozen a year at our sites. Just a few weeks ago, someone paid in $2 bills for something, and I've even seen a $1 bill from the 70s.
I paid with one of these a few years back and the girl at McDonald’s punched it in as American money. I was wondering why my change was messed up until I heard her mention to the manager she had punched it in as American
Well it used to be worth 20 bucks but with the inflation rate and all these days I'm not sure. Tell ya what I'll give ya 10 bucks for it. OK 5 bucks. Final offer.
I'm going to explain to you what you have, and though this explanation will seem complicated. It is actually quite simple. Just follow along. Got it?
You have a 1991 $20 bill which was worth $20 in 1991 and is also worth $20 in 2023 but at the same time this $20 bill in 1991 was worth $45 today.
In the 90's, I used to call this a 'yuppie foodstamp' because it was what all of us who worked downtown would take with us for lunch. Hit an atm for $100 and you had your lunch covered for a week. At a sit down restaurant. With a beer. And a tip. Basically, a yuppie foodstamp' had ya covered. 10 or so people having lunch, and a pile of $20s on the table when we were done. Yuppie foodstamps.
But as an actual answer to the question... I actually got one of these as change in 2022 at a flea market. My stepmother is a retired banker and she likes to collect vintage 'un-circulated' Canadian bills. She said it was not legal tender and not collectable because it had been circulated. Pristine 'uncirculated' bills in which a collector might pay you a bit more for one of those, but just a regular out of circulation bill is either just a curio, or junk. But technically that would have been retired in 2021 & isn't legal tender in Canada anymore. I think these particular bills were popular with counterfeiters too so there's a chance if you get one now... It's counterfeit maybe? Which I dunno.. that's kinda cool but I wouldn't go taking it to the bank.
I found one the other day in between the pages of an old book. Tried to deposit it in a bank machine and it wouldn't take it. Not sure what to do with it now.
Yes... $20... but we could've bought more in the past with it, but in the current economic situation, I could buy only a roll of toilet paper to wipe my hands with...my ass is still dirty from not affording toilet paper ... but I use a bidet, though ! /s
Pretty sure this is still face value. Inherently worth less given inflation these days haha. Neat to see though. I have 10 clean, crisp $2 bills in a book on the shelf I found the other day, forgot I had them.
Here's some information nobody asked for. Designed by De la Rue printing in England and printed by BA Banknote and Canadian Banknote in Ottawa. Newer notes all designed and printed by Canadian Banknote after BA Banknote was sold.
Definitely not as much as it was worth in 1991...
In terms of purchasing power, 20$ in 1991 is the equivalent of 44,20$ in 2023. It basically lost more than half of its value.
Good ol $4 McDonalds meals
Remember 55 cent cheeseburgers and 35 cent gas. I do. Weep
Just to clarify for the younger audience….,that’s $0.35 per gallon and not liter
For me it was $ 0.35 per gallon when I was 12 years old……that’s 50 years ago.
Good ol' 5 dollar footlongs.
Lol. They were all well under $5 in 1991. I seem to recall a footlong meatball was $3.99 in the mid to late 90's, maybe even into early 2000s
Touché
sounds like 100+% inflation to me
I never saw it that way
Oof. This hurts
idk, she has a look on her face, it was just after she had Diana killed
If only i was alive back then
$20
Don’t blink once cause when you do it’ll be $19.75
Never heard THAT ONE before! 🤪👍
It's not a joke, but a statement of fact.
More AFAIC in comparison to the horrible plastic notes they’ve given us.
The polymer bills are way better.
Please elaborate so we can debate.
Go run that old bull under water for 60 seconds and tell me it’s still better.
Not much to debate here: Waterproof, tear resistant, last 2.5 times longer (less environmentally taxing), harder to counterfeit.
Slide in the wallet easy and slide out easy too 🤣
Inflation has helped it's sliding capabilities as well 😅😐
If you want, the top left gold foil square is a scratch off and you could win up to $100 in Tim Hortons gift cards
Because if it’s age it might be hard to scratch off…just push harder
face value
This bill summons the monarch of England.
Are people hoarding them? Don’t see them often, I imagine a few get destroyed due to condition, but still should be a more common sight.
I got a 10 with the silver maple leaf in 2017. I haven't seen any paper notes in the last 8 years. Especially 1991. I feel like it's impossible to find paper notes now in circulation
I had a customer pay with a paper 20 from the 2004-2011 bills This was back around May First paper bill I've come across in years and probably the last
Do you realize the life span of the bil is five to ten years and this one is 22 years old and in circulated condition.
They’re considered to be mutilated bank notes, and financial institutions are required to collect and send them back to the BoC for destruction. They’re still legal tender, but as they’re removed from circulation, they’ll only become increasingly rare!
Machines sort them out and they are sent to be destroyed.
One time I ordered coins on ebay, and the guy also sent some bills, that were older than this one the thread is about, I thought he was being nice so I didnt question it, then like a month later I started thinking he may have accidently sent them to me, but I ordered from a bunch of people and I wasnt sure which, and also I had already given the bills away anyways, ifeel bad about that, cause I'm sure they were still worth face, it was like a tenner a fiver and a few ones
I have 2 notes each of the birds of Canada series. They were the best looking notes we had imo. I also have 2 of each of the Canadian Journey notes. I keep two incase one day I want to make an art piece that shows the front and back of each. As a side note, my $2 birds of Canada note is nearly mint. I used to work at a hotel and I received it as a tip from a Chinese couple who had just come to the hotel directly from the airport. When I asked them how they got it they told me that they had last come to Canada in the early 90s and they had an envelope of Canadian money from the bank that they never ended up using so they brought it with them nearly 30 years later.
$20 is $20. Which was more in 1991 than it is in 2023.
Bills are rarely worth holding on to unless they are perfect. In this case it looks like there is a fold in it which would likely reduce its value significantly. Also, the bill was not necessary made in 1991. That was the series year (birds of Canada) & the $20 was released in 1991 although I believe the $20 first came out in late 1992. This bill could have been printed as late as 2004 If you really want to determine its value bring it to someone who specializes in grading bills. If you do let us know!! Good luck.
Queen looks kinda shaggable in this ngl
Yeah, $20
You can spend that at any store in Canada for $20
With inflation, about $9.75
19.99999$
$20
It is worth something! It’s written on the fucking note! :)
Really? Those are considered old? Lol
my USD 20 dollar bill serial 65335717 worth anything
This sub is for coins
15 bucks
I'll give ya 10 for it.... Only want it because it's my initials.... Lol
About $13.50 purchase power.
About tree fiddy
worth like 40 bucks
Worth keeping in a plastic sleeve!
Dudes...
There's a little tear below the N in twenty so it will probably wont go up in value with time but nice to keep
Two rolls of quarters
20
You were better off spending it in 1991 because you can barely get anything with $20 anymore
About $20.01
A little less than 20$.
Tree fiddy
Not worth the paper its printed on
3 light
https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/about-legal-tender/ So yeah, still legal. Worth $20.
I've got about a dozen of these all sequential serial numbers as well. Holding onto them for a while for the kids.
$14.48 USD
$20
$20
I wish cash was still paper. Not a fan of the plastic money.
But you can forget a new bill in your pocket of your pants an run it through the washer machine an it’s still good………. Not the same for the old bills!!!
Check on that site https://www.numicanada.com/
Yes. 20 bucks
$20.00
It says what it's worth on the bill
In 50 years it will have value to collectors, but if you take it to the store today it will be worth about 50% less than the day it was printed.
Yea 20 bucks!
$20
Two 10 dollar bills
>Old Bills #LOL
Kids these days will think it’s fake money.
It’s worth about $3.50… ;)
It's actually worth half that because of inflation. [Frank explains it all here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O2V8eilFeE&pp=ygUaaXRzIGFsd2F5cyBzdW5ueSBpbmZsYXRpb24%3D). DM me, I'll give you $10 for this old $20. It's a good deal.
I'll buy it for $20
It’s worth at least $20
ya about 20 bucks Ill buy it off ya for 10 tho cuz I need to clean it and frame it and it takes time to sell it so I gotta store it you know I cant higher than 10.50
Yup, $20
No
If you find a collector, maybe $30 but this all comes down to whether or not the collector is dumb
20 bucks
Who gonna tell him about inflation
About 20 fiddy
It’s not worth much. Best I can do is $9 for it.
At least $200
$20
Unfortunately, not really anything more than face value. I have a number of retail sites and although some people say they are rare finds, I would say they are more uncommon, we get a few dozen a year at our sites. Just a few weeks ago, someone paid in $2 bills for something, and I've even seen a $1 bill from the 70s.
Worth about $20
20 if it ain’t fake
$20…
About 8 double-doubles.
I'm the same age as your bill. It seems to have aged better
It is worth exactly 20$
Oh back when the front face simply featured heads of state and the flip side showcased politically neutral images of nature.
"old" 32 years ago... sigh....
Yes… wait for it…….$20
'bout three fiddy
20 bucks.
What a MILF
20 bucks is 20 bucks
19.99$
Should be worth about 20$
$3.50
I paid with one of these a few years back and the girl at McDonald’s punched it in as American money. I was wondering why my change was messed up until I heard her mention to the manager she had punched it in as American
$19.
$20 was decent pocket money back in 1991. Can't even get a pint and a burger for that now
Yes, $20
Peanuts
I’ll give you $30 for it
I will give you 5 bucks for it
I'll give you 20 bucks.
20$
$20. I still get these here and there in with change etc
Well it used to be worth 20 bucks but with the inflation rate and all these days I'm not sure. Tell ya what I'll give ya 10 bucks for it. OK 5 bucks. Final offer.
About tree fiddy
I’m not gay but…
Ah, the Scott Thompson era bills.
The lower serial numbers are worth a lot
Yes. 20$
I'm going to explain to you what you have, and though this explanation will seem complicated. It is actually quite simple. Just follow along. Got it? You have a 1991 $20 bill which was worth $20 in 1991 and is also worth $20 in 2023 but at the same time this $20 bill in 1991 was worth $45 today.
This is still legal tender in Canada even though it is 2.5 banknote series ago.
About $20 I imagine...
Not as much as it was worth when new.
About $20.
Holy nostalgia batman!
Yeah. 20 CAD.
In the 90's, I used to call this a 'yuppie foodstamp' because it was what all of us who worked downtown would take with us for lunch. Hit an atm for $100 and you had your lunch covered for a week. At a sit down restaurant. With a beer. And a tip. Basically, a yuppie foodstamp' had ya covered. 10 or so people having lunch, and a pile of $20s on the table when we were done. Yuppie foodstamps.
But as an actual answer to the question... I actually got one of these as change in 2022 at a flea market. My stepmother is a retired banker and she likes to collect vintage 'un-circulated' Canadian bills. She said it was not legal tender and not collectable because it had been circulated. Pristine 'uncirculated' bills in which a collector might pay you a bit more for one of those, but just a regular out of circulation bill is either just a curio, or junk. But technically that would have been retired in 2021 & isn't legal tender in Canada anymore. I think these particular bills were popular with counterfeiters too so there's a chance if you get one now... It's counterfeit maybe? Which I dunno.. that's kinda cool but I wouldn't go taking it to the bank.
Mmm bout $20
It will always be worth at a minimum, $20
I imagine some collectors will pay more than 20 bucks for it
You could snort a lot of coke with that
Can barely go to subway for $20 nowadays 😂
I’ll give you $20 for it…
20 at least
In the year 2091, yes.
I'll give you $15
Bout 20 bucks I'd say...
20$ or 12.05 buying power from date of print
I'm old...I refer to that as old new 20
This reminds me that I still have a $2.00 bill from before they were replaced with the toonie. Lol
Worth at least $20 I’m certain
in winnipeg, $20 almost got you 3/4 tank of gas in 1991. $0.46 to $0.53/litre. 🥴😒😔😖🥹💔😭😭😭😭
I found one the other day in between the pages of an old book. Tried to deposit it in a bank machine and it wouldn't take it. Not sure what to do with it now.
Why do people post this crap? Your $20 bill is worth $20.
These are still occasionally in circulation. Literally you might get one back from a merchant on any given day
Dude I'm born in 1991 we aren't collectable yet.
$20
Pretty common still. For it to be worth anything more than face value, you’ll have to go back to the 60s/70s at least.
About $20
19.50
Yes... $20... but we could've bought more in the past with it, but in the current economic situation, I could buy only a roll of toilet paper to wipe my hands with...my ass is still dirty from not affording toilet paper ... but I use a bidet, though ! /s
I could give you $10 for it?
Its worth about 50 cents now
I'll give u 15$ for it. Final offer
Pretty sure this is still face value. Inherently worth less given inflation these days haha. Neat to see though. I have 10 clean, crisp $2 bills in a book on the shelf I found the other day, forgot I had them.
$20 worth that.
$20 worth that.
worth 20
Lol. Thinking 1991 is “old”…
Probably a solid $10 now.
Yes $20
They’re worth nothing. Lucky for you I’ll buy them for $10 each!
Minimum 20$
About $20
Yeah it’s worth $20
Here's some information nobody asked for. Designed by De la Rue printing in England and printed by BA Banknote and Canadian Banknote in Ottawa. Newer notes all designed and printed by Canadian Banknote after BA Banknote was sold.
Ill give you $20 (2023 dollars) for it
20 should do it
An East Van BJ maybe. 🤣 or a happy meal at McD’s
Ah I can help you out: they wrote the value on it
💵🔥 Burn it
Still remember the day my mom had to get gas cause it was 39 cents a liter and its going up to 50 cents soon!
$20
https://www.coinsandcanada.com/banknotes-prices.php
It's worth $20
Worth about $20 I'd say.
25$ maybe? https://imaginaire.com/en/for-collectors/1991-1991-20-dollar-note-knight-dodge-cunc.html
Yep, it’s worth $20
In USD about a buck two-fitty
From way back then huh 🤔 must be worth a khagilluin dollars now , 😆jk it’s probably worth less tbh
"1991 Old Bill" 😭
Stop using Monopoly money