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100 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in olive-green and black with an intricate guilloche underprint. A central intaglio vignette presents a portrait of Sir John A. Macdonald within an oval frame, flanked by the bilingual issuer inscriptions BANK OF CANADA to the left and BANQUE DU CANADA to the right. The denomination ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS / CENT DOLLARS appears in a lower panel, with the place and date of issue OTTAWA and the promise clause WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND / PAIERA AU PORTEUR SUR DEMANDE rendered in letterpress; the numeral 100 appears in large format at each upper corner. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-brown with a large central allegorical vignette in intaglio, showing two classical figures — a seated youth and a standing male figure — consulting a large tome, with an industrial landscape visible in the background. Large numeral 100 counters appear at left and right within ornate guilloche panels, and the bilingual legend BANK OF CANADA / BANQUE DU CANADA runs across the top, with ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS / CENT DOLLARS along the bottom margin. |
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| Variants | P#64a - Signature Osborne-Towers P#64b - Signature Gordon-Towers P#64c - Signature Coyne-Towers |
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