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The dominion notes were partially backed by gold. For the first $5 million in notes, the federal government was required to have gold reserves for twenty per cent of the value of the notes. The next $3 million issued notes were required to be backed by gold reserves of twenty-five percent of the value of the notes. [54]
Company sales grew from $5 million in 1927 to $500 million in 1954, although market share suffered in the face of competition from IBM. Remington Rand purchased the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation in 1950, delivered the UNIVAC I in 1951, and bought Engineering Research Associates in 1952, all this making them a major player in the new ...
$1 Million Canadian Gold Maple Leaf: Canada: Dorotheum Auction House June 2010 $4,000,000 (20 million ZAR) 1898 Single 9 Pond South African Republic: King Farouk of Egypt: South Cape Coins (private transaction) [18] May 2010 $3,960,000 1885 Trade Dollar: PF-66 United States Eliasberg Heritage Auctions [19] January 2019 $3,877,500 1804 Bust ...
Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
Canada produced its first gold dollar coins in 1912 in the form of $5 and $10. These coins were produced from 1912 to 1914. The obverse carries an image of King George V and on the reverse is a shield with the arms of the Dominion of Canada.
A Big Maple Leaf measures 2.8 centimetres (1.1 in) thick and 50 centimetres (20 in) in diameter and is 999.99/1000 pure. The obverse of the BML shows Queen Elizabeth II as she has appeared on Canadian coinage since 2003, [5] when Susanna Blunt's design became the third iteration of the queen's effigy to appear on coinage (the others were 1965 and 1990).
[3] [2] Children throughout Canada submitted designs to the Bank of Canada via their elementary schools, and over 4,000 Canadians participated in the design process. [ 3 ] All banknotes in the series feature a stylised Flag of Canada in the upper right-hand corner of the obverse, [ 7 ] and measured 152.4 by 69.85 millimetres (6.000 by 2.750 in ...
The design by De La Rue was selected by the Bank of Canada in 1964 as the basis for the new series. [ 2 ] Each denomination retained the dominant colour of the respective banknote from the Canadian Landscape series: green for the $1 banknote, orange (terracotta) for the $2 banknote, blue for the $5 banknote, mauve (purple) for the $10 banknote ...