Catalog
100 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada |
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| Year | 2003-2009 |
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| Size | 152 × 70 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the theme 'Exploration and Innovation', rendered in complementary gold and green tones. At centre, a satellite image of Canada is flanked by a telecommunications antenna at left and a Radarsat-1 satellite at right; a historical map with a compass rose and a canoe occupy the left portion of the design. A bilingual excerpt from Miriam Waddington's poem 'Jacques Cartier in Toronto' is inscribed across the note, with the denomination numeral '100' repeated at left and right margins. |
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| Signature(s) | Jenkins & Dodge; Jenkins & Carney |
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Czesław Słania engraved this note — a remarkable footnote given that Słania was Swedish-Polish and spent most of his career at the Swedish Security Printing House, where he engraved stamps for over 70 countries. By the time this series was produced, he was well into his eighties and widely regarded as the most prolific security engraver of the twentieth century. His involvement in Canadian currency work was a late-career commission that few collectors connect back to him.
The BC-66 series ran across two printing contractors simultaneously — BA International and Canadian Bank Note Company — which can produce subtle but detectable differences in ink density and registration between specimens from each plant.