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July 7, 2014
Birds of Canada Series $2 Note
Issued in September 1986 and printed by both Canadian Bank Note Company Ltd. and British American Bank Note Company, the $2 note was the second in the new series and features a portrait of the Queen engraved by Henry S. Doubtfire of De La Rue, based on a photograph by Anthony Buckley.
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June 23, 2014
CENTimental Journey
With all the blogging we’ve been doing for Voices from the Engraver, you’d think we had nothing else on our exhibition plate. We do, actually, and it’s called CENTimental Journey. This temporary exhibition, hosted at the Canadian Museum of History, walks you through more than 150 years of the Canadian 1 cent piece.
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June 16, 2014
Museum Reconstruction - Part 2
We are coming up on a year since we closed the doors on the physical museum. During that year, we’ve worked very hard to make sure everybody knows that we are still a functioning museum and one that will be opening its doors again in a few years on a beautiful new space, with an expanded mission and mandate.
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June 13, 2014
CENTimental Journey
27 June 2014 - 26 June 2015 This temporary exhibition, hosted at the Canadian Museum of History, walked visitors through more than 150 years of the Canadian 1-cent piece. Featuring 12 significant coins, the exhibition evoked Canadian and world history even as it profiled our humble pennies. The coins were backed up with entertaining graphics […] -
June 6, 2014
2011-2013: The Frontiers Series
The paper money that’s not made of paper is our first series to be printed on a state-of-the-art polymer material that is both more resilient and harder to counterfeit.
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June 6, 2014
2001-2006: The Canadian Journey Series
This first series for which the Canadian public was consulted features scenes representing culture and achievement. It is also the first predominantly computer aided design. -
June 6, 2014
1986: The Birds of Canada Series
New reproduction techniques available to counterfeiters encouraged the production of a new series of notes with reflective elements and simpler designs that would make printing defects more apparent- birds are also politically neutral. -
June 6, 2014
1969-1979: The Scenes of Canada Series
Counterfeiters were catching up and new approaches were needed to foil them; the layering of multiple colours and elegant swashes of geometric patterns were the key design features of this series. -
June 6, 2014
1954: The Canadian Landscape Series
A completely new approach to Canadian note design was undertaken after the accession of Queen Elizabeth II, one that was representative of a Canadian vision of itself. -
June 6, 2014
1937: The Bilingual Series
The release of this partly re-designed series of notes was prompted by the death of King George V in 1936 and new legislation requiring bilingual notes.
