10 Canadian Dollars, Series of 2001-2006

Image of the face

Image of the back

Issuing authority: Bank of Canada
Year on the banknote: 2001, 2005, 2008, 2009
In circulation since: 2005
Substrate:

White heavy paper with a localized watermark, security thread, and colorless, light green, and dark blue fibers

Dimensions: 152mm × 70mm
Face:

Portrait of J. A. Macdonald, Library of Parliament

Back:

Peacekeeping forces and war memorial

Intaglio: face: portrait, "10" (top) and coat-of arms (bottom) on the kinegram (stripe) to the left of the portrait; vertical inscriptions along the left edge of the banknote; "CANADA", "TEN DIX", "DOLLARS" (three lines) along the top edge; "10" and "ISSUE OF 2005/EMISSION DE 2005" in the lower right corner.

Offset printing: face: all images except for the intaglio ones. back: all images except for the serial numbers and tags formed of four vertical black lines along the bottom edge of the banknote.

Letterpress: back: serial numbers, tags formed of four vertical black lines along the bottom edge of the banknote.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 Blind embossing

Raised dots (face) along the top edge of the banknote in the center and to the right (features for the visually impaired)

View under UV light

Face
Back

Paper: under UV light, colorless fibers have red luminescence, light green fibers have green luminescence, dark blue fibers have no luminescence.

Design features: face: characters and fragments of "BANK OF CANADA 10 BANQUE DU CANADA" have red, yellow, and green luminescence.


View under IR light

Face

Back

Face: intaglio images are printed with two types of metameric inks, one of which absorbs IR waves and the other does not. As a result, when studying the images in the IR, only a part of the intaglio images appears.

Back: in the IR, visible are three tags on the left, serial number on the right, fragment of the image


Magnetic protection

Design features: back: black inks used to print the three vertical tags near the bottom edge of the banknote have magnetic properties.