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1 Dollar
| Issuer | Dominion of Canada |
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| Year | 1870 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black on green underprint with a portrait vignette of Jacques Cartier at upper left and a central allegorical vignette of a reclining woman with child and globe. Issued by the Dominion of Canada Ministry of Finance, printed by the British American Bank Note Company. |
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| Reverse description | Green intricate guilloche pattern covers the entire reverse, with an ornate central cartouche bearing the payable city overprint in serif lettering; shown here as 'PAYABLE AT MONTREAL'. Denomination numerals appear at left and right within the guilloche framework. |
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The Dominion of Canada's first domestic currency series followed Confederation in 1867, but production took several years to organize. The British American Bank Note Company — established in Montreal in 1866 as a merger of American Bank Note Company's Canadian operations with British counterparts — had relocated its main facility to Ottawa by the time this series was produced, making this an early example of genuinely Canadian-printed federal paper currency rather than an import from New York or London engravers.
Pick 12 is the green-tinted variety. The series as a whole is known for inking inconsistencies across surviving examples, a consequence of the company still refining its Ottawa production processes in the early 1870s.