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1 Dollar
| Issuer | Bank of Brantford, Brantford |
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| Year | 1859 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF BRANTFORD ONE DOLLAR BRANTFORD |
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| Variants | S1569a - partially engraved date (18xx) S1569b - fully engraved date S1569c - overprint: HONITON, 01.05.1862 S1569d - overprint: KINGSMILL, 01.05.1862 |
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The Bank of Brantford was a short-lived institution — chartered but chronically undercapitalized, it never achieved the stability of its Upper Canadian contemporaries and collapsed before Confederation. Notes from this bank are genuinely scarce, not because they were carefully preserved but because so few entered wide circulation to begin with.
Pick 1569 is among the rarer entries in Canadian chartered bank listings. The Free Banking era in Canada West produced dozens of marginal institutions whose paper survives today only in single-digit quantities across known collections.