1954 Paper Money Collection - $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 with Scarce Beattie/Coyne Signatures

While four different signature combinations exist on 1954 modified series banknotes, the scarcest are the first and oldest notes bearing the signatures of Beattie and Coyne as the deputy governor and governor of the Bank of Canada. This collection includes Beattie/Coyne $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes, all in excellent, collectable condition. All of the notes come displayed in currency presentation holders.

While slightly more than 10 percent of the total number of 1954 modified series notes originally released featured the Beattie/Coyne signatures, only about one to two percent of surviving notes are Beattie/Coyne instead of the later notes. Most advanced collectors of Canadian banknotes try to assemble all of the different signatures for each note.

Signatures appearing on Canadian banknotes change when the governor or deputy governor of the Bank of Canada change. 1954 modified notes feature the following signatures:

• First issue: Beattie/Coyne
• Second issue: Beattie/Rasminsky
• Third issue: Bouey/Rasminsky
• Fourth issue: Lawson/Bouey

Face designs:
• The original young portrait of Queen Elizabeth appears on all the face of all of the banknotes

Back designs:
• $1: western Prairie scene
• $2: landscape from the Upper Melbourne, Richmond, Quebec
• $5: Otter Falls, mile 996, Alaska Highway
• $10 Mount Burgess, BC
• $20 Laurentians in winter
• $50: beach and breakers at Lockport, Nova Scotia
• $100: Okanagan Lake, BC

Includes: 
• 1954 Banknote Collection $1 to $100 Scarce Beattie/Coyne Signatures