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$5 Bank Note 2006 BC-61a Jenkins/Dodge – Bank of Canada
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Product Description
$5 Bank Note 2006 BC-61a Jenkins/Dodge – Bank of Canada
Canadian Journey Series (2001-2006)
By the late 1990’s, security printers were under siege by an army of new digital reproduction devices. Desktop printers, scanners and photo manipulation software were all becoming affordable tools for the counterfeiter. Two can play at that game and the ‘Canadian Journey’ series was the first to be designed wholly on a computer. It was also the first to involve Canadian citizens in its subject choices. Many focus groups were convened to decide what values or achievements most reflected the Canadian experience and these elements, from the arts to pond hockey to votes for women, adorned the backs of all the notes.
Like in 1954, the series design was the vision of one person. Canadian Bank Note art director Jorge Peral was charged with designing the entire note series. This could only be accomplished with the help of computers and their ability to provide multiple versions of a note or make changes instantly visible. What has resulted is a beautifully layered and highly cohesive note series, the $20 note winning ‘Bank Note of the Year’ for 2005 by the International Bank-Note Society.
Even by the era of the Bird Series, the main security feature was no longer the intricacy or perfection of the engraving but in elements such as metal threads, holograms and watermarks. The ‘CJ’ bills have front to back registration, meaning that they must be shown to align absolutely via a semi-transparent number fragment that completes itself when held to the light. There are also hidden features only detectable electronically. Only the portraits were hand engraved, retaining a traditional look.
Design
The $5 note, issued in March 2002, was the second in the series. The face features a portrait of Sir Wilfrid Laurier produced by the noted Swedish engraver Czeslaw Slania and a vignette of the West Block of the Parliament Buildings. All notes in the series feature a stylized Maple Leaf flag in the top right-hand corner. The back of the note celebrates the theme Children at Play with images of children skating, tobogganing, and playing hockey. A quotation from The Hockey Sweater by Canadian author Roch Carrier is also featured.
Signature: Jenkins and Dodge
Mintage:=110,000,000
Prefix: APJ
