I'm only a coin collector, I don't know squat about these. A friend of mine found these while clearing out a deceased friends estate and asked me to get more information and approximate values for the following. Thanks!
I just got a book on CSA notes today, haven't read it yet though, so I'll let someone else chime in. What year is the silver cert, looks nice.
1923, no fold, no tears, clean corners. I would guess MS-63/64? All of them were stored in wax paper between two pieces of cardboard, then put into an envelope. I was very excited to open the envelope. It probably hadn't been opened in over 50 years.
My book says the $50 is worth $40 in Good condition. The $10 note is the most common of all CSA notes and is worth $15 in Good. This book is notorious for non-accurate prices though. Good news is I think they are real.
The $10 conferderate in that condition is worth about $7, The $50 I'm not too sure on, so I won't try and give info on that one. As for the $3 obsolete, it is in pretty bad shape, so probably only $5 max, but worth so much more, around $50 in Unc. The Large-Size silver certificate is worth more in unc condition, but it looks like there may be a fine fold or two in there that would knock it into the XF range-around $55. Hope this helps.
I love obsoletes! $5.00 due to condition is a vary fair price if not less. In my opinion I would say $2.00 to $3.00 in that condition.
Give them to a family member. I took the notes to my local dealer last night. He said the $1 note was AU-50 and told me he'd pay $50 for it. The other notes were of no interest to him. He said to a collector they would probably bring around $70 as a group. This info is good enough, they are not interested in selling them since they apparently have some family history. Thanks everyone!
No problem. The best thing about paper currency is that the more you learn about it, the more fun you get to have when it comes to it. Plus, there aren't as many paper note collectors as coin collectors, so we tend to disagree more on grading, condition, etc. which makes for interesting conversation. I had a $10 CSA at one time and sold it. I kinda miss it now...
Well I'm a little late to the party but I agree that $10 is in bad shape and worth $5 to $15, the $50 is probably $20 to $40 and the $3 Railroad Note is cool and beat to heck Probably be worth $5 tops to someone, as for the 1923 it's not CU and if offered $50 for it and I wanted to sell it that would be fair. Other then the Rail Road note those are all common and I own over a dozen of each which shows how common But there's always room for another as being common they are still great!
Duke, great reply! I'm going to print that and give it to her when I return the notes. Thanks my friend.
