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1954 $5 (Devil's Face, Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada Note

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Why this coin matters

The 1954 $5 (Devil's Face, Coyne-Towers) Bank of Canada Note was printed for the Bank of Canada with a recorded printage of 27,600,000 notes — the 18th-lowest of the 25 notes of the type in the 1954 devil's face banknote series, and 5% 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.