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Bank of Canada Notes, 1937

23 issues

Every note of Canada's first bilingual series, with its recorded printage. Born of the 1936 accession crisis and the bilingual-notes law, the 1937 issue collapsed the separate English and French printings of 1935 into single notes - and moved the rarity from language to signature, with three deputy-governor pairings under Towers and the short Osborne window making the keys.

The complete checklist

IssueMintMintage
1937 $1 (Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa249,568,000
1937 $1 (Gordon-Towers, Narrow Panel) Bank of Canada NoteSEMI-KEYOttawa10,000,000
1937 $1 (Gordon-Towers, Wide Panel) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa460,000,000
1937 $1 (Osborne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa50,000,000
1937 $10 (Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa90,000,000
1937 $10 (Gordon-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa180,000,000
1937 $10 (Osborne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteSEMI-KEYOttawa6,400,000
1937 $100 (Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteSEMI-KEYOttawa900,000
1937 $100 (Gordon-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa4,170,000
1937 $100 (Osborne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteKEYOttawa70,000
1937 $1000 (Osborne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteKEYOttawa15,000
1937 $2 (Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa80,000,000
1937 $2 (Gordon-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa170,000,000
1937 $2 (Osborne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa20,000,000
1937 $20 (Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa20,000,000
1937 $20 (Gordon-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa40,000,000
1937 $20 (Osborne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteSEMI-KEYOttawa1,622,000
1937 $5 (Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa70,000,000
1937 $5 (Gordon-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa160,000,000
1937 $5 (Osborne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteSEMI-KEYOttawa8,824,500
1937 $50 (Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteSEMI-KEYOttawa1,100,000
1937 $50 (Gordon-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa4,200,000
1937 $50 (Osborne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteKEYOttawa100,000
The mintage is the only number that never changes. This is where it lives.