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1954 $100 (Devil's Face, Beattie-Coyne) Bank of Canada Note

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Why this coin matters

Every devil's face hundred came out of one prefix block, A/J, and the block was split between the two signature eras: 1,677,884 notes signed Coyne-Towers, then 679,644 signed Beattie-Coyne before the modified face took the denomination over in 1956. That makes this the smallest regular printage of the type after the $1,000, on a note that was actually used as money.

The figure is a clean lesson in how this series works. Nothing about the hundred was rare by design; it simply had the shorter half of a shared prefix when the clock ran out on the devil. The deadline, not the denomination, set the number.

From the editorial file

High face value kept survival rates decent, so this is a rarity you can genuinely shop for. The usual trap is the signature: the Coyne-Towers hundred is two and a half times more common and looks identical at a glance.

Before you buy: the checklist

  • Read the left signature. Beattie is the scarcer pen on the hundred. Listings regularly photograph everything except the signatures.
  • Face value is the floor. Even a damaged example is worth its hundred dollars, which keeps the downside unusually gentle for a key.

Mintage: the 1954 bank of canada note, issue by issue

IssueMintMintage
1954 $1 (Devil's Face, Beattie-Coyne) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa106,740,000
1954 $1 (Devil's Face, Beattie-Coyne, Asterisk Replacement) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa14,400
1954 $1 (Devil's Face, Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa77,200,000
1954 $1 (Devil's Face, Coyne-Towers, Asterisk Replacement) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa14,400
1954 $10 (Devil's Face, Beattie-Coyne) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa50,600,000
1954 $10 (Devil's Face, Beattie-Coyne, Asterisk Replacement) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa4,800
1954 $10 (Devil's Face, Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa47,200,000
1954 $10 (Devil's Face, Coyne-Towers, Asterisk Replacement) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa4,800
1954 $100 (Devil's Face, Beattie-Coyne) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa679,644
1954 $100 (Devil's Face, Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa1,677,884
1954 $1000 (Devil's Face, Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa30,000
1954 $2 (Devil's Face, Beattie-Coyne) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa51,400,000
1954 $2 (Devil's Face, Beattie-Coyne, Asterisk Replacement) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa7,200
1954 $2 (Devil's Face, Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa37,200,000
1954 $2 (Devil's Face, Coyne-Towers, Asterisk Replacement) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa4,800
1954 $20 (Devil's Face, Beattie-Coyne) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa25,251,856
1954 $20 (Devil's Face, Beattie-Coyne, Asterisk Replacement) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa4,800
1954 $20 (Devil's Face, Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa17,175,894
1954 $20 (Devil's Face, Coyne-Towers, Asterisk Replacement) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa7,200
1954 $5 (Devil's Face, Beattie-Coyne) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa61,414,816
1954 $5 (Devil's Face, Beattie-Coyne, Asterisk Replacement) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa7,200
1954 $5 (Devil's Face, Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa27,600,000
1954 $5 (Devil's Face, Coyne-Towers, Asterisk Replacement) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa2,400
1954 $50 (Devil's Face, Beattie-Coyne) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa1,039,892
1954 $50 (Devil's Face, Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada NoteOttawa1,440,000

The 1954 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.

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