# Canada has a new $10 banknote -- and it's gorgeous. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252 "2018-03-08T18:26:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/21 "2018-03-09T19:10:18Z")
I think he looks like Kelsey Grammar. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/22 "2018-03-09T19:22:20Z")
This currency was graped by the grapist! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/23 "2018-03-09T22:31:04Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I feel like I should make a Canada joke here, but I got nothin’. “They’re not a real country, anyway”? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/24 "2018-03-09T22:46:17Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > “They’re not a real country, anyway”? If you want to make a TV ad where George Washington talks to you and tells you to buy their car insurance, you’ve got to invest in an expensive animator. But to make Canabucks people talk, all you’ve got to do is cut the bill in half and move the top half around to simulate the flapping heads so full of lies. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/25 "2018-03-09T23:12:41Z")
Thanks for the link to the Wikipedia page. I’m ashamed to say I didn’t know much about her! I’m glad she’s being honored in this way. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/26 "2018-03-10T00:41:32Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > “They’re not a real country, anyway”? No, most Canadians on the board are good sports about jokes. Besides, they like the Southern USA, and everyone in the Band was Canadian, save for my fellow Arkansan Levon Helm. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/27 "2018-03-10T01:06:00Z")
> [@Crazy\_Canuck](#): > > I know this is a total nitpick, but she was also on the one, two, and thousand dollar bills before they were withdrawn, which are all still legal currency. You are correct for bills being currently produced though. They soon won’t be legal currency. The Government has announced in the most recent budget that the older bills, particularly the $1,000, are going to cease to be legal tender. That’s not the same as losing their value. You will still be able to take them to a bank and get face value for them. But they won’t be legal tender for ordinary transactions. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/28 "2018-03-10T02:06:51Z")
We still have bank notes? In all seriousness, I don’t remember the last time I bought something with cash. I carry a couple twenties in my wallet just in case, but it’s been the same two bills for a couple years now. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/29 "2018-03-10T07:07:10Z")
The reverse of the old C$50 was one of the best designs in the world. It featured a ring of Mounties mounted (of course) on horseback. . If I am elected your president I shall institute a public design contest to remake all our banknotes and coins. I hope I can count on your support in November. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/30 "2018-03-10T09:39:48Z")
I’m not sure I like the portrait orientation, but it is what it is. I’ll look forward to getting one in my wallet. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/31 "2018-03-10T11:39:35Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Any $10 notes, in sufficient quantity, are beautiful. > > 😉 Ha! ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/32 "2018-03-11T05:54:01Z")
Eh, I’d still say [this 1954 banknote](http://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2015/05/canada-1-dollar-banknote-1954-queen-elizabeth-ii.html) is still Canada’s most beautiful dollar. Just enough detail and color to stand out, but not overly flashy like today’s design. And it reminds you how lovely a young Queen Elizabeth was (shame she couldn’t smile). ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/33 "2018-03-11T06:29:37Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > Eh, I’d still say [this 1954 banknote](http://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2015/05/canada-1-dollar-banknote-1954-queen-elizabeth-ii.html) is still Canada’s most beautiful dollar. Just enough detail and color to stand out, but not overly flashy like today’s design. And it reminds you how lovely a young Queen Elizabeth was (shame she couldn’t smile). I must be the same vintage as **Northern Piper** , because that 1954 series was what I remember seeing when I was a child. The obverse was pretty much the same in all cases, and the Queen was on all of them, but the reverse had nice scenes of Canada–did anybody else look for the little hut at the foot of the mountains on the $10 bill? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/34 "2018-03-11T07:05:59Z")
I once read that the prairie scene on the back of this $1 bill was based on a photograph taken somewhere in Saskatchewan. The photographer was often asked where he took it but he would refuse to say, brushing the question off with comments about “it could be anywhere in Saskatchewan - it represents the province - no need to pin it down” etc. Years later he opened up about it and said he couldn’t remember where he took it. You see, he had been at a Ukrainian wedding somewhere in rural Sask that had lasted three days, and he was driving home, very hungover, and stopped somewhere to take the picture, but couldn’t pin down where. Saskatchewanians who heard this story went, “Ah, Ukrainian wedding hangover. No wonder you can’t remember.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/35 "2018-03-11T16:57:39Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > Eh, I’d still say [this 1954 banknote](http://www.worldbanknotescoins.com/2015/05/canada-1-dollar-banknote-1954-queen-elizabeth-ii.html) is still Canada’s most beautiful dollar. Just enough detail and color to stand out, but not overly flashy like today’s design. And it reminds you how lovely a young Queen Elizabeth was (shame she couldn’t smile). Ah, I think that’s the one with the “[Devil’s face](http://canadacurrency.com/bank-of-canada/bank-of-canada-currency-from-1954/value-of-1954-devils-face-1-bill-from-the-bank-of-canada-2/)” in the Queen’s hair! They actually had to modify the portrait because of the controversy it generated, even though there had been no ill intent: the so-called “Devil’s face” was actually present in the photograph of the Queen from which the portrait had been made. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/36 "2018-03-11T19:34:44Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Ha! Reminds me of the thread asking what my favourite plastic was, and I said “[biaxially-oriented polypropylene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote)”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/37 "2018-03-11T19:36:23Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I must be the same vintage as **Northern Piper** , because that 1954 series was what I remember seeing when I was a child. The obverse was pretty much the same in all cases, and the Queen was on all of them, but the reverse had nice scenes of Canada–did anybody else look for the little hut at the foot of the mountains on the $10 bill? I remember seeing the 1954 notes occasionally when I was a kid, but the usual ones were the 1960s versions. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/38 "2018-03-11T20:10:07Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > … a damn good reason for a landscape orientation: … that’s how you count them … Um, no, clearly you lack experience counting large numbers of bills (e.g., from retail registers): one holds them the long way, like cards, slightly bowed along the long axis, and slides through the stack. For counting a small number of them, like walking through your wallet, the wide way may be ok, but for big stacks, only the long way is practical. ---
**Author:** ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/39 "2018-03-12T17:22:38Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > They soon won’t be legal currency. The Government has announced in the most recent budget that the older bills, particularly the $1,000, are going to cease to be legal tender. Hadn’t heard that, interesting to know. Of course, all of them have a higher collector value by now than their face value, so you’d probably get more for them on eBay than you would from the bank. I actually have a near mint '86 thousand dollar bill in my safe deposit box, and according to eBay similar bills are going for ~ $1200. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252/40 "2018-03-12T19:54:00Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I once read that the prairie scene on the back of this $1 bill was based on a photograph taken somewhere in Saskatchewan. The photographer was often asked where he took it but he would refuse to say, brushing the question off with comments about “it could be anywhere in Saskatchewan - it represents the province - no need to pin it down” etc. > > Years later he opened up about it and said he couldn’t remember where he took it. You see, he had been at a Ukrainian wedding somewhere in rural Sask that had lasted three days, and he was driving home, very hungover, and stopped somewhere to take the picture, but couldn’t pin down where. > > Saskatchewanians who heard this story went, “Ah, Ukrainian wedding hangover. No wonder you can’t remember.” > > 😃 I suddenly have the urge to listen to “American Wedding” by Gogol Bordello. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-has-a-new-10-banknote-and-its-gorgeous/810252.md?page=3)