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50 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 - 50 BANQUE DU CANADA 50 - CANADA BANK OF CANADA OTTAWA 1988 THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER - CE BILLET A COURS LEGAL SOUS-GOUVERNEUR - DEPUTY GOVERNOR GOVERNOR - GOUVERNEUR FIFTY · DOLLARS · CINQUANTE |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a central intaglio vignette of a Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) perched on a rocky outcrop beside a lake, rendered in fine engraved detail against a landscape background. The word 'CANADA' appears in large letters behind the owl. The serial number is printed twice in black at the lower portion of the note, accompanied by a bar code to assist visually impaired users. |
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The Birds of Canada series, to which this note belongs, was the first Canadian series to incorporate a metallic security thread — a direct response to increasingly sophisticated counterfeiting that had plagued the earlier Scenes of Canada issues throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The RCMP had flagged the vulnerability well before the new series launched.
Hipschen's engraving work for the Canadian Bank Note Company during this period was among the finest intaglio produced domestically. The $50 denomination in this series carries two distinct signature combinations across its print run, spanning twelve years of issue — longer than most comparable Canadian series remained in production without a redesign.