Date: 2004
Colour: Green and tan on multicolor underprint
Canadian Journey Series.
Front: Queen Elizabeth II at left. The Royal Arms of Canada, and a picture of the Centre Block of the Parliment buildings. The front also has a holographic strip on the left side with the number 20 alternated with maple leaves.
Back: Depicts artworks by Bill Reid. On the right his sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, the Black Canoe and on the left his sculpture Raven and the First Men. There is also a quotation from La Montagne secrète (1961) a novel by Canadian author Gabrielle Roy.
Watermark: Queen Elizabeth II. There a minor differences in the position of the watermark in the paper. These are not considered varieties. There was also a change in the watermarked Queen's portrait from 2005 onwards.
Printer: Canadian Banknote Company or BA International Inc. Banknotes with serial number prefix A** are printed by BAI. Banknotes with serial number prefix E** or F** are printed by CBC.
Size: 137 × 74 mm
Varieties
a. Signature Jenkins / Dodge
*b. Signature Jenkins / Carney
*c. Printed in 2011. Signature Macklem / Carney
* Not listed in Krause Catalog
Catalog Value:
a.
Error:
The Bank of Canada has confirmed that the note is genuine and postulates that the error is a result of an uncut sheet of banknote paper being being rotated 180 degrees before being fed into its presses in Ottawa. Since each sheet contains 45 notes, there must have been 44 other examples of this error with serial numbers similar to that found on Winston Brown's note: EZM7459230. However, his note was found in circulation in 2006 (though a 2004 issue, the note is dated 2006 on the back), and Brown isn’t aware of any other similar notes that have surfaced to date. It’s possible they escaped notice and may be lost, destroyed, collected. To date no other such errors have been reported.
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