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1 Dollar
| Issuer | Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed in black with multicolour rainbow underprint incorporating repeated value numerals '1' in abstract guilloche patterns. At left, the Coat of Arms of Canada appears as a vignette, while at right is an intaglio portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. The serial number is printed in two positions: left in red, right in blue, preceded by a two- or three-letter prefix. |
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| Variants | P#85a(1) - signatures: Lawson & Bouey; engraved back; double letter serial prefix P#85a(2) - signatures: Lawson & Bouey; engraved back; 3-letter serial prefix until AFE P#85b - signatures: Lawson & Bouey; lithographed back; serial prefix from AFF onwards P#85c - signatures: Crow & Bouey |
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The 1973 series $1 note was Canada's last circulating dollar bill before the Royal Canadian Mint's dollar coin — the "Loonie" — replaced paper in 1987. By that point the note had been in continuous production for over a decade, printed by both BABN and CBN from engraved plates worked up by C. Gordon Yorke, whose name appears in the lower margin.
Signatures and replacement notes across this series produced numerous catalogued varieties. The asterisk prefix on replacement notes from this issue is among the more actively collected distinctions, with certain low-print asterisk runs commanding multiples of face value even in circulated grades.