Catalog
20 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 159 x 70 mm |
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| Reverse description | Black intaglio on olive-green underprint. Central vignette of a seated allegorical female figure amid foliage, with a rooster at her side, framed by ornate guilloche scrollwork. Large numeral 20 appears at left and right, with bilingual denomination and issuer inscriptions across the top and bottom. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Three distinct signature combinations appear on P#62, reflecting the Bank of Canada's changing senior staff across the note's production run — Gordon Osborne and J.A.C. Osborne sharing the same surname but no family relation, a coincidence that occasionally trips up collectors. The Coyne-Towers pairing came later, with James Coyne having joined the Bank in 1938, which technically pushes some of those issues beyond the nominal 1937 date.
The Gordon/J.A.C. Osborne combination is the scarcest of the three.