Coins1937 Canadian Banknotes, 1937 → 1937 $100 (Gordon-Towers) Bank of Canada Note

1937 $100 (Gordon-Towers) Bank of Canada Note

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Why this coin matters

The 1937 $100 (Gordon-Towers) Bank of Canada Note was printed for the Bank of Canada with a recorded printage of 4,170,000 notes — the 7th-lowest of the 23 notes of the issue in the 1937 canadian banknote series, and less than half of one percent of the 1,626,969,500 notes in the whole 1937 issue.

A full collector's note for this issue — survival, strike character, and what to check before buying — is on the writing schedule; the figures above are the permanent record.

Mintage: the 1937 bank of canada note, issue by issue

IssueMintMintage
1937 $1 (Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa249,568,000
1937 $1 (Gordon-Towers, Narrow Panel) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa10,000,000
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 NoteOttawa6,400,000
1937 $100 (Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa900,000
1937 $100 (Gordon-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa4,170,000
1937 $100 (Osborne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa70,000
1937 $1000 (Osborne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa15,000
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 NoteOttawa1,622,000
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 NoteOttawa8,824,500
1937 $50 (Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa1,100,000
1937 $50 (Gordon-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa4,200,000
1937 $50 (Osborne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa100,000

The 1937 in its series

Sources

Mintage figures: United States Mint (Annual Report of the Director of the Mint), Royal Canadian Mint records, and — for the 1935 banknote issue — Bank of Canada printage records as published in the Charlton Standard Catalogue of Canadian Government Paper Money, cross-checked across independent published references. Specifications: United States Mint coin specifications.

The mintage is the only number that never changes. This is where it lives.