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1 Pound
| Issuer | Bank of New Brunswick |
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| Year | 1845-1852 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of standing Britannia flanked by allegorical female figures and cherubs; a cask and bale appear at lower center. The composition is rendered in fine intaglio engraving typical of mid-19th century North American private bank issues. |
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| Reverse description | Female heads appear at upper and lower left and right corners as vignette ornaments, with two cherubs, a cask, and a bale at upper and lower center, rendered in intaglio engraving consistent with New England Bank Note Company production. |
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The Bank of New Brunswick was a Saint John institution operating under a provincial charter, and its recourse to Boston engravers was entirely typical of Maritime banking practice in this period — New England Bank Note Company supplied plate work to numerous colonial issuers who lacked any domestic printing infrastructure capable of producing secure currency.
New Brunswick wouldn't achieve responsible government until 1848, meaning the earliest dates of this issue fall under a colonial administration still answering to London. The province ran its own currency system distinct from both sterling and the emerging Canadian dollar, with pounds, shillings, and pence denominated locally at a slight variance from British sterling par — a persistent irritant to merchants trading across the border into Maine.
The Bank of New Brunswick itself wound down operations before Confederation, absorbed into the shifting consolidation of Maritime banking during the 1860s.