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1954 $20 (Devil's Face, Beattie-Coyne, Asterisk Replacement) Bank of Canada Note

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Why this coin matters

The 1954 $20 (Devil's Face, Beattie-Coyne, Asterisk Replacement) Bank of Canada Note was printed for the Bank of Canada with a recorded printage of 4,800 notes — the 5th-lowest of the 25 notes of the type in the 1954 devil's face banknote series, and less than half of one percent of the 506,721,986 devil's face notes printed before the fix.

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 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.

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