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The number of fake Canadian notes rose as high as 117 PPM by 1997. In 2004 Canada's counterfeiting rate had ballooned to 470 PPM. In 2012, the counterfeiting rate had fallen to its lowest point, at 28 PPM. It has since started modestly rising to 36 PPM in 2014. The Bank of Canada's medium-term planning target is to stay below 30 PPM. [8]
Coin Pre-decimalisation value Post-decimalisation value [1] Dates of use Notes Mite 1 / 24 d £0.0001736 15th century The Flemish groat approximately matched the English penny c 1420-1480 and was divided into 24 mites.
Since its opening in 1908, the Royal Canadian Mint has produced coinage and planchets for over 80 countries. [1] This list of foreign countries with coinage struck at the Royal Canadian Mint lists countries that have been serviced by the Crown corporation, as listed on the website of the Canadian Numismatic Publishing Institute.
Until the middle of the 19th century, privately owned banks in Great Britain and Ireland were free to issue their own banknotes. Paper currency issued by a wide range of provincial and town banking companies in England, [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Wales, [ 17 ] Scotland [ 18 ] and Ireland [ 19 ] circulated freely as a means of payment.
The Standard Catalog of World Paper Money was a well-known catalogue of banknotes that was published by Krause Publications in three volumes. These catalogues are commonly known in the numismatic trade as the Pick catalogues , as the numbering system was originally compiled by Albert Pick , but are also referred to as "Krause" or "SCWPM".
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