50 Canadian Dollars, Series of 2001-2006
Image of the face
Image of the back
| Issuing authority: | Bank of Canada |
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| Year on the banknote: | 2004, 2008, 2011 |
| In circulation since: | 2004 |
| Substrate: |
White heavy paper with a localized watermark, security thread, and colorless, light green, and dark blue fibers |
| Dimensions: | 152mm × 70mm |
| Face: | Portrait of W.L. Mackenzie King, the Peace Tower |
| Back: | The Famous Five, first women – members of the Senate of Canada |
Intaglio: face: portrait, "50" (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", "FIFTY CINQUANTE", "DOLLARS" (three lines) along the top edge; "50" and "ISSUE OF 2004/EMISSION DE 2004" 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 three vertical black lines along the bottom edge of the banknote.
Letterpress: back: serial numbers, tags formed of three vertical black lines along the bottom edge of the banknote.
View under UV light
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 50 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.
Magnetic protection
Design features: back: black inks used to print the two vertical tags near the bottom edge of the banknote have magnetic properties.