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10 Dollars
| Issuer | International Bank of Canada |
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| Year | 1859 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and displays a bold guilloché pattern centred on the large word 'TEN' set within and behind an oversized numeral '10', the letters rendered in an interlocking latticework of fine engine-turned lines. Ornamental floral rosette motifs occupy each corner, framing the central denomination device. The design is entirely typographic and lathe-work, with no pictorial vignette, relying solely on the geometric complexity of the underprint for visual effect. |
| Reverse lettering | TEN |
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The International Bank of Canada was chartered in 1858 and headquartered in Toronto, making it one of the shorter-lived chartered banks of the pre-Confederation period — it collapsed in 1879. The American Bank Note Company, which printed this note in New York, had only recently been formed through the merger of several competing security printers in 1858, and the International Bank was among its earliest Canadian clients.
Pick reference 1826 places this firmly in the Charlton catalogue territory; Canadian chartered bank notes of this period circulated as de facto currency under the free banking framework that predated the Dominion's 1871 currency consolidation.