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50 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada |
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| Year | 1954 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark olive-green and black intaglio on a salmon-pink guilloche underprint. At right, a portrait vignette of Queen Elizabeth II in three-quarter view, engraved in fine intaglio detail. The large bold legend CANADA occupies the upper centre, flanked by denomination numerals 50 at each corner, with the bilingual inscriptions FIFTY DOLLARS and CINQUANTE DOLLARS flanking the large central numeral 50. The issuing authority BANK OF CANADA – BANQUE DU CANADA appears in a panel near the lower centre, above the OTTAWA / 1954 date and two facsimile signatures of the Deputy Governor and Governor. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in orange-red intaglio and presents a large central landscape vignette of a rocky Atlantic coastline with crashing ocean surf and distant headlands rendered in fine engraved linework. The denomination 50 appears in each corner, with the bilingual legend FIFTY DOLLARS 50 CINQUANTE DOLLARS along the top border and BANK OF CANADA – BANQUE DU CANADA along the bottom. Vertical inscriptions FIFTY DOLLARS and CINQUANTE DOLLARS run along the left and right margins respectively, all within a geometric guilloche border frame. |
| Reverse lettering | FIFTY DOLLARS 50 CINQUANTE DOLLARS BANK OF CANADA – BANQUE DU CANADA FIFTY DOLLARS CINQUANTE DOLLARS |
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