Catalog
5 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Reference(s) | P#95 |
| Obverse description | The obverse carries bilingual text in English and French throughout, with the numeral '5' rendered in multicolored wave-pattern guilloche underprinting. The Coat of Arms of Canada occupies the upper center, while an intaglio portrait of Sir Wilfrid Laurier — Canada's seventh Prime Minister and first Francophone to hold the office — appears to the right. Behind the portrait, a vignette presents a northeasterly view of the Centre Block and Library of Parliament as they appeared during Laurier's era, with the Red Ensign flying from the tower. |
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| Signature(s) | Crow & Bouey; Thiessen & Crow; Bonin & Thiessen; Knight & Thiessen; Knight & Dodge |
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The BC-56 series introduced a significantly redesigned multicolour printing approach for Canadian currency, moving away from the more restrained palette of the preceding Scenes of Canada issue. Three signature combinations exist across the series run — Lawson-Bouey, Crow-Bouey, and Thiessen-Crow — reflecting governor and deputy governor transitions through the late 1980s and into the early 1990s. The Lawson-Bouey pairing is the earliest and generally the least common of the three.
Yves Baril's engraving credit appears in the intaglio work, produced by the Canadian Bank Note Company at their Ottawa facility.