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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Notaphylic_C, post: 26310745, member: 130786&quot;]I was just a young boy with a paper route &amp; eager to tuck away any low denominations I could afford (from 1974-1978).&nbsp; My brother had an impressive coin collection &amp; loved to lord over me his silver (with past kings &amp; queens I had never seen before).&nbsp; He got the coins from his paper route, my grandpa &amp; parents found in their change.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why I began tucking away the odd $1.00 or $2.00 banknote (1973 series, like I posted Tuesday) b/c by the time I took over his paper route (1974), all the silver was mostly long gone (1968 was when they were last minted).&nbsp; He showed no interest in the &quot;new&quot; notes I was saving and would bring out some old rarity our grandpa had given him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then our grandpa gave him one of these Devil Face &quot;beauties&quot; that looked something like this: [ATTACH=full]1679741[/ATTACH]</p><p>I did not notice the difference so he got a Modified $5 &amp; we compared.</p><p>[ATTACH]1679745[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I must admit I was shocked that I had been blind to the highlights (subtle differences). It also surprised me that the printers had gone to such trouble to remove them &amp; the furor that this little perceived &quot;face&quot; had caused: it impressed me. (My Mum was big fan of the queen so she recalled the media coverage &amp; the controversy that had surfaced, even though it had long passed).</p><p><br /></p><p>Once I bought my first Fine <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note201889.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note201889.html" rel="nofollow">$20 (Devil&#039;s Face)</a>, I learned that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yousuf_Karsh" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yousuf_Karsh" rel="nofollow">Yousuf Karsh</a> took the original photo of Princess Elizabeth (read a few articles about it). I always thought that the original 1954 (Devil&#039;s Face) notes look much more dramatic than the Modified versions (better colours/contrasts). </p><p><br /></p><p>I had no idea that Karsh had his first break by Prime Minister Mackenzie King until I re-read the Wikipedia link on Karsh today:</p><p>[ATTACH]1679743[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I also learned that Karsh&#039;s famous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roaring_Lion" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roaring_Lion" rel="nofollow">&quot;Roaring Lion&quot; portrait</a> of Winston Churchill ended up on the back of <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note350090.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note350090.html" rel="nofollow">England&#039;s $5.00</a>. Some pretty cool numismatic background info I had not known until today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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