Template:Did you know nominations/Scenes of Canada


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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:09, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

Scenes of Canada

 * ... that the Scenes of Canada series of banknotes of the Canadian dollar were referred to as the "rainbow series"?
 * ALT1:... that the release of the Scenes of Canada series of banknotes of the Canadian dollar dramatically lowered the counterfeit ratio in Canada, which stayed very low for over a decade?
 * ALT2:... that some retailers did not believe banknotes in the Scenes of Canada series were real money when the series was first issued into circulation?
 * ALT3:... that the tugboat featured of the $1 banknote of the Scenes of Canada series was bought by the city of Hull and is now on display at the Canadian Museum of History?
 * ALT4:... that the image of the Musical Ride made the $50 banknote the most popular in the Scenes of Canada series?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/La Storta (see my DYK tracker)
 * Comment: Please note that I previously excised copyvio text from this article (see this diff), which left about 539 bytes of actual text. (Not that it matters - even without the pruning, the text has been expanded more than the required amount.)

5x expanded by Mindmatrix (talk). Self nominated at 12:35, 28 September 2014 (UTC).


 * The Article
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 * Prose expanded on a fivefold (period September 27-28)


 * The Hook (I'm interested in ALT1)
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DYK passes.