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1 Dollar
| Issuer | Bank of Brantford, Sault St. Marie |
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| Year | 1859 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and red-orange, showing the note's design elements in mirror impression through the paper, with guilloche roundels bearing the numeral "1" at left and right, and the issuer name visible in reversed letterpress across the centre, consistent with a note printed on thin cotton paper with no distinct reverse design. |
| Reverse lettering | BANK OF BRANTFORD ONE DOLLAR |
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The Bank of Brantford was a short-lived Upper Canadian chartered bank that never fully established itself — its notes circulated in a region where public confidence in local paper currency was already fragile, and the institution collapsed before its issues achieved wide distribution. The dual reference to Brantford and Sault Ste. Marie in the issuer line reflects a common practice among speculative charters of the period: claiming branch presence in multiple locations to project stability that didn't always exist on the ground.
Printing by the American Bank Note Company in New York was standard for Canadian private bank issues of this period, with plates typically engraved to a high intaglio standard regardless of how solvent the client actually was. Survivor numbers are low.