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The Canadian one-hundred-dollar note is one of five banknotes of the Canadian dollar. It is the highest-valued and least-circulated of the notes since the thousand-dollar note was gradually removed from circulation starting in 2000.
An American flag is flying over the Parliament Buildings on Canadian paper money. This is not the case. The Birds series notes depict a Union Flag flying over Parliament on the $100; a Canadian Red Ensign (a former Canadian flag) on the $5, $10, and $50; and the modern maple-leaf flag was on the $2 notes. (The $20 depicts the Library of ...
[13] [15] At the time, 2,827,702 of the $1000 bills were in circulation, representing 0.3% of all circulating currency; in 2001, 520,000 banknotes were withdrawn from circulation and destroyed. [34] By 2011, fewer than 1 million were in circulation, most of which were held by organized crime and used for money laundering. [13] [2] [15]
Scenes of Canada is the fourth series of banknotes of the Canadian dollar issued by the Bank of Canada.It was first circulated in 1970 to succeed the 1954 Canadian Landscape series and was followed by the 1986 Birds of Canada banknote series.
Illustration of Dominion of Canada $100 note, 1872, showing the old Centre Block of the Parliament of Canada. The history of Canadian currencies began with Indigenous peoples in Canada prior to European contact, when they used items such as wampum and furs for trading purposes. The Indigenous peoples continued to use those items as currency ...
The primary impetus for the new banknotes was "the need to stay ahead of counterfeiters". [2] [3] By 2002, 10% of retailers in some parts of Canada refused to accept the $100 banknotes of the 1986 Birds of Canada series in financial transactions, [4] and by 2004, the counterfeit ratio for Canadian currency had risen to 470 parts per million (ppm). [5]
The Canadian dollar traded at a record high of US$2.78 in terms of American greenbacks on July 11, 1864, since the latter was inconvertible paper currency. [38] However, the Canadian dollar remained close to par or 1:1 versus the gold or silver US dollar of the time.
Canadian Landscape is the third series of banknotes of the Canadian dollar issued by the Bank of Canada, first circulated in 1954. The banknotes were designed in 1952 following the accession of Elizabeth II to the throne after the death of her father George VI .