10 Dollars

St. Stephen, New Brunswick was a small border town whose economic life was deeply entangled with Calais, Maine directly across the St. Croix River. Local banks on both sides routinely accepted each other's paper at par — an informal arrangement that persisted for decades and made notes like this one genuinely cross-border instruments in daily use, not merely Canadian currency.

The American Bank Note Company had consolidated from several predecessor firms only in 1858, and this note came early in its history as a unified engraver. ABNC's New York production for Canadian provincial issuers was common before Confederation forced standardization through the Dominion currency system.