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50 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Engraver(s) | George Arthur Gundersen |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in red on a multicolour 'rainbow' underprint with complex guilloche work and abstract decorative forms, with '50' value numerals integrated throughout the frame. At left, a vignette of the Coat of Arms of Canada, while at right appears an intaglio portrait of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada on multiple occasions between 1921 and 1948. A seven-digit serial number with a two- or three-letter prefix appears twice, the left serial printed in red and the right in blue. |
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| Protection description | the effigy of William Lyon Mackenzie King, visible when the note is held to light |
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| Comments |
The 1975 series was Canada's first wholesale shift to bilingual text across the entire note face — French and English given equal legal standing on the instrument itself, not just in accompanying documentation. The Bouey-Lawson signature combination dates this example to the latter half of that series run; Lawson replaced J.W. Crow as Deputy Governor, placing issuance between 1973 and 1984.
Gundersen's intaglio engraving for the Canadian Bank Note Company was among the finer portrait work produced domestically in that decade. The $50 denomination of this series is notably harder to find in high grade than the lower values — heavy commercial and retail use took a toll that the $100 rarely suffered.