20 Canadian Dollars, Series of 1954

Image of the face

Image of the back

Issuing authority: Bank of Canada
In circulation since: 1954
Substrate:

White paper has green non-luminescent security planchettes

Dimensions: 152mm × 70mm
Face:

Portrait of Queen Elisabeth II

Back:

Winter landscape of the Laurentian Highland

Intaglio: face: portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and shadow frame around it. All texts except for the motto in Latin in the lower part of the banknote. Face value numerals. Horizontal guilloche line with the name of the bank in English and French. Printing plate number in the left part of the banknote above the guilloche line. Guilloche ornamental frame along the periphery of the banknote. back: all images.

Offset printing: face: color background grids over the entire banknote surface withing the peripheral frame; ornament of geometric shapes with the face value both in numbers and spelled out; name of the bank in two languages printed in a small font. Coat-of-arms in the center. White vignette with the motto ""A MARI USQUE AD MARI" in the lower part of the note.

Letterpress printing: face: two serial numbers.