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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26307517, member: 4626&quot;]Random thoughts:</p><p>I think I must have a later $20, because the serial is on the back rather than the front.&nbsp; It could have been printed any time between 1979 and 1986 (maybe the signatures can narrow it down more) but I do have a distinctive memory that the $20 I once had was of this design.&nbsp; At the time of Expo &#039;86 none of the new notes (the bird series) were out yet, or at least I never saw any.</p><p><br /></p><p>I debated with myself if I should try to be more precise with dates in my banknotebank collection with currency, but I decided to just stick with the date on the currency (if it had one) rather than trying to figure out more precisely when the note would have been released, as that could get really complicated really quick (unless I have reason to know more precisely when it was actually released).&nbsp; Dates on currency do not necessarily correspond to when they were actually released or even when they were printed.&nbsp; This is especially true on US notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;Devil&#039;s face&quot; thing always amused me from the time I heard of it, because:</p><p>1. I don&#039;t know why anyone would think someone would do that on purpose, on banknotes that would be seen by everyone in the country</p><p>2. While I can kind of see it, I wouldn&#039;t have ever noticed if I wasn&#039;t told to look for it</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure if they changed it because they took the complaints seriously, or, as I strongly suspect lol, they were just tired of hearing them.&nbsp; I only have one note (a $2 bill) from the series that could have the &quot;devil&#039;s face&quot;, and mine apparently doesn&#039;t.&nbsp; I&#039;ll probably eventually try to get at least one of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The serial number thing seems odd, because I&#039;m not sure why it was easier for machines to read the number off the back as opposed to the front.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;scenes of Canada&quot; series (aka the multicolor series) was the last series to have a $1 bill before it was discontinued in favor of coins; the next series, the bird series, was the last to have a $2 bill before they were discontinued in favor of coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was looking up a history of the design changes just from the &quot;Bank of Canada&quot; period (1935 to the present).&nbsp; I honestly think we (the US) should change our designs more frequently.</p><p><br /></p><p>With currency I collect, kind of well anything I can get my hands on lol, but the mood for what I concentrate on changes from time to time.&nbsp; I don&#039;t rule out anything I don&#039;t yet have.&nbsp; Certainly wouldn&#039;t mind getting more Canadian notes I&#039;m missing if the mood strikes me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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