2 Canadian Dollars, Series of 1986 "Birds of Canada"

Image of the face

Image of the back

Issuing authority: Bank of Canada
In circulation since: 1986
Substrate:

White paper has green security planchettes that have luminescence

Dimensions: 152mm × 70mm
Face:

Two robins

Back:

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II

Intaglio: face: portrait, coat-of-arms, all texts, signatures of the officials, face values. A horizontal guilloche line in the central part of the banknote with micro-lettering and images to the right of the portrait; printing plate number below the line in the left part of the banknote.

Offset printing: face: background grid with a rainbow effect in the central part of the banknote (concentric circles and alternating wavy lines of two colors formed by the face value numerals). Background grid of omnidirectional lines in the left and right parts of the banknote. back: all images except for serial numbers.

Letterpress: back: two serial numbers