1 Dollar / 1 Piastre / 5 Shillings The Agricultural Bank

The Agricultural Bank of Upper Canada was chartered in 1834 as part of a broader push by reformist interests in the colony to break the stranglehold of the Bank of Upper Canada on commercial credit. It operated for only a few years before collapsing, and its notes circulated in a climate of chronic small-change shortage — hence the three-denomination face, expressing value simultaneously in dollars, piastres, and shillings to satisfy different trading communities along the St. Lawrence corridor.

The bank never secured a permanent charter renewal and wound down before 1840. Survivors are rare precisely because the institution was so short-lived.