Catalog
10 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Upper Canada, Toronto |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is executed in black intaglio on white paper with a green underprint. A central vignette presents two allegorical female figures seated facing one another across a shield, flanked by lions, in the style typical of mid-19th-century American bank note engraving. To the lower left, an oval portrait vignette shows a young woman in period dress, while to the lower right a seated female figure appears beside a large numeral denomination panel. The bank title BANK OF UPPER CANADA arches across the upper register, with TORONTO and the manuscript date 1 Jan. 1861 inscribed in the lower centre, and the denomination TEN DOLLARS set within a cartouche below the central vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF UPPER CANADA CAPITAL $1,000,000 TEN DOLLARS TORONTO ON DEMAND X TEN |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green, with a dense lathe-work guilloche pattern covering the full field. At the centre, an oval cartouche with a fine geometric border frames the numeral 10 in large bold figures against a lightly textured ground, the surrounding field filled with intricate repeating foliate scroll work characteristic of the security printing of the period. |
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