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1 Dollar

Issuer Bank of Brantford, Sault St. Marie
Year 1859
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Value 1 Dollar
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Obverse description The obverse is printed in black on white paper with red-orange lathe work and guilloche ornaments. The central vignette presents a pastoral scene with a milkmaid tending cattle amid a rural landscape, flanked by a mounted horseman vignette at lower left and an agricultural or industrial scene at lower right. The denomination "ONE DOLLAR" is inscribed within a central panel, with the issuer name "BANK OF BRANTFORD" in bold letterpress across the middle, and the payable location "Sault St. Marie" hand-stamped below, dated November 7, 1859.
Obverse lettering BANK OF BRANTFORD
ONE DOLLAR
Will pay to bearer on demand
Sault St. Marie
Nov 7th 1859
For the Bank of Brantford
INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT PROVINCE OF CANADA
American Bank Note Company
CAPITAL $1,000,000
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.
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