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General => General Forum Comments => Topic started by: Rupiah on December 08, 2017, 09:35:38 pm
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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 (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 (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/ (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?
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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
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The portrait of Agnes Macphail is titled which is straight in the issued note.
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Are there other differences that anyone else can notice?
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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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