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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The right half of the note carries an intaglio portrait of Sir John Alexander Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada, with a vignette of the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa immediately to his right. The Coat of Arms of Canada appears at upper centre, flanked by bilingual text in English and French. The numeral "10" is rendered in a multicolour wave guilloche underprint across the face of the note. |
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| Signature(s) | Thiessen & Crow; Bonin & Thiessen; Knight & Thiessen |
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The 1989 Canadian $10 belongs to the "Birds of Canada" series — a deliberate policy shift away from the purely architectural reverses of the preceding Scenes of Canada issues. The series also marked a significant upgrade in security design, with a metallic security thread introduced across the denomination range in response to growing counterfeiting pressure through the late 1980s.
BA International, the successor identity to British American Bank Note, printed this domestically. Thomas Hipschen's engraving work was a consistent presence across multiple Canadian series of this period.