Catalog
10 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Size | 152.4 × 69.85 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CANADA 10 ÉMISSION / ISSUE 2013 DIX • TEN DOLLARS BANK OF CANADA 10 BANQUE DU CANADA 10 THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER / CE BILLET A COURS LÉGAL OTTAWA SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD PREMIER MINISTRE / PRIME MINISTER 1867-1873, 1878-1891 |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Canada THE CANADIAN LE CANADIEN 10 |
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The 2013 Canadian polymer $10 is part of the Frontier Series, the Bank of Canada's first fully polymer issue, which replaced the long-running cotton-paper Journey Series that itself had only finished rolling out in 2004. The switch to polymer was driven less by counterfeiting — Canada's fraud rates were already relatively low — and more by durability economics: polymer notes last roughly two and a half times longer in circulation, which matters considerably for a high-turnover denomination like the ten.
The Canadian Bank Note Company produced the Frontier Series domestically, a point worth noting given that earlier Canadian issues had frequently been sent abroad for printing. The transparent window is integral to the substrate rather than applied as a patch, which distinguishes it from some contemporaneous polymer adoptions by other central banks.