The 1973 series $1 note was Canada's last circulating dollar bill before the Royal Canadian Mint's dollar coin — the "Loonie" — replaced paper in 1987. By that point the note had been in continuous production for over a decade, printed by both BABN and CBN from engraved plates worked up by C. Gordon Yorke, whose name appears in the lower margin.
Signatures and replacement notes across this series produced numerous catalogued varieties. The asterisk prefix on replacement notes from this issue is among the more actively collected distinctions, with certain low-print asterisk runs commanding multiples of face value even in circulated grades.
The 1973 series $1 note was Canada's last circulating dollar bill before the Royal Canadian Mint's dollar coin — the "Loonie" — replaced paper in 1987. By that point the note had been in continuous production for over a decade, printed by both BABN and CBN from engraved plates worked up by C. Gordon Yorke, whose name appears in the lower margin.
Signatures and replacement notes across this series produced numerous catalogued varieties. The asterisk prefix on replacement notes from this issue is among the more actively collected distinctions, with certain low-print asterisk runs commanding multiples of face value even in circulated grades.