What's New
As part of its ongoing efforts to improve the security of Canadian bank notes, the Bank of Canada plans to issue a $5 bank note with upgraded security features on 15 November 2006. The upgraded note will have the same security features found on the $10, $20, $50, and $100 notes from the Canadian Journey series issued in 2004 and 2005.
4 April 2006
Bank of Canada to Upgrade $5 Bank Note
The Bank of Canada today announced that it will issue a $5 note with upgraded security features beginning 15 November 2006 as part of its ongoing effort to improve the security of Canadian bank notes.
7 February 2006
Nominations Invited for the Bank of Canada's Law Enforcement Award of Excellence for Counterfeit Deterrence
Effective today, the Bank of Canada is inviting nominations for the third annual Law Enforcement Award of Excellence for Counterfeit Deterrence
Bank Notes
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The Bank's Role
The Bank of Canada is the country's only note-issuing authority and is responsible for designing, producing, and distributing Canada's bank notes. Learn more.
Check Your Bank Notes
Protect yourself and your money. Check to make sure bank notes are genuine when you receive them, just as you would count your change or verify your receipts. Recognizing genuine Canadian bank notes is quick and easy:
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FEEL the note: Touch the raised surfaces on your money. The ink feels thicker to the touch on the large denomination numeral, the words BANK OF CANADA/BANQUE DU CANADA, the Coat of Arms, and the portrait.
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LOOK AT and LOOK THROUGH the note: Hold the Canadian Journey notes to the light to see a watermark, a windowed security thread, and the see-through number.
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TILT the note: Look for the changing colours and images of the holographic stripe and windowed security thread on all the notes or of the iridescent maple leaves on the original $5 and $10 notes.
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Current Bank Notes
