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Topic: "Barbershop banknote" - $10-150 alternate design  (Read 4213 times)
Rupiah
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« on: December 08, 2017, 09:35:38 pm »

A fellow forum member sent me an article that appeared on-line on CBC with the following title:

"Barbershop banknote: Did Sir John A. Macdonald get a $10 haircut?", Dean Beeby

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/banknote-bank-of-canada-macdonald-haircut-1.4074412

In the article the author makes reference to a $10-150 design where the portraits were a bit closer.

In looking for something on the Bank of Canada Museum website I ran into an image of an intaglio plate with an alternate design:

This link takes you directly to the image:

http://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/C150_plate-face.jpg

This link takes you to the main page of the description of the exhibition:

http://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/explore/exhibitions/special-exhibitions/canada-150-bank-note-making-history/

Has anyone seen the exhibition? Was the alternate design note corresponding to the plate exhibited?

Wonder what paper money would say if it could talk?
Rupiah
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« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2017, 09:55:45 pm »

Here is the image showing some variations:


Notice the left circle shows Canada 150 Canada engraved which is note in the issued note

The portraits of Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir George-Etienne Cartier are touching which is not the case in issued note

and

The portrait of Agnes Macphail is titled which is straight in the issued note.



Are there other differences that anyone else can notice?




Wonder what paper money would say if it could talk?
Seth
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« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2017, 12:05:12 pm »

I flipped the image and inverted the colours.

Macdonald's shoulder goes up to the curved part of the 0 in the 10 counter. On the issued note his shoulder is lower.


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