The bill was judged on artistic merit, design and security features.
When the Bank of Canada unveiled a new $10 bill last year, it was both the first regularly-circulating note depicting a Canadian woman and the first to be vertically-oriented.
Now the bill has been voted the world’s best banknote by the International Bank Note Society judged on artistic merit, design, and security features from among 15 nominated from more than 150 new notes issued worldwide in 2018. Ottawa “dominated” voting, taking the Bank Note of the Year Award over entries including Russia’s 100 ruble note with a soccer theme and the Solomon Islands’ $40 featuring an image of a man blowing conch shell.
Desmond was picked for the new note by Finance Minister Bill Morneau after an open call to Canadians to nominate an iconic Canadian woman. The Black Nova Scotian businesswoman refused to leave a whites-only area of a movie theatre in 1946 and was jailed, convicted and fined then took the fight against segregation to the courts.
Related On the back of the note printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company and featuring “bold” anti-counterfeiting features is the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.The winner of the inaugural award in 2004 was a $20 note featuring a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and artwork by Haida artist Bill Reid on the back of the note.Senators respond to Simpsons’ jab in Canadian fashion
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