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1 Dollar
| Issuer | Government of Newfoundland, Department of Public Works |
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| Year | 1901-1908 |
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| Reference(s) | P#A7 |
| Obverse description | Black intaglio on white paper with intricate guilloche borders and four corner medallions each bearing the numeral "1". Central text panel carries the promise to pay in script lettering, with three signature lines below for Acting Secretary, Minister of Public Works, and Chairman Board of Commissioners. Date printed in red at top centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | NEWFOUNDLAND GOVERNMENT CASH NOTE ISSUED UNDER ACT 62 & 63 VIC. CAP. 6. DEPARTMENT PUBLIC WORKS. The Newfoundland Government will Pay the bearer ONE DOLLAR on presentation of this note of the Bank of Montreal in St. John's Acting Secretary Minister Public Works Chairman Board of Commissioners AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY NEW YORK |
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Newfoundland retained its own currency administration long after Confederation with Canada became a live political question, and these Department of Public Works notes reflect that stubbornly independent fiscal posture. The Provincial — technically Colonial — government issuing currency through a public works department rather than a treasury or central bank was unusual even by the loose standards of early twentieth-century colonial finance.
ABNC printed the series from its New York facilities during a period when the company held engraving contracts across the Caribbean and British North America simultaneously. Newfoundland wouldn't join Canada until 1949, making these notes some of the last sovereign-adjacent colonial dollar issues in the Western Hemisphere.