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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Dominion Bank |
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| Year | 1888 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is executed in fine intaglio engraving in green and black, with the bank title 'THE DOMINION BANK' arched across the top in bold letterpress. A central allegorical vignette presents a reclining female figure amid a cornucopia of fruit and produce, flanked on the left by a standing female figure beside a pedestal inscribed with a charter reference. The denomination '10' appears in large counters at left and right, with the text 'TEN DOLLARS' in a panel at centre-lower, and the legend 'Pay to the Bearer on Demand' across the centre field. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE DOMINION BANK Pay to the Bearer on Demand TEN DOLLARS TORONTO SPECIMEN |
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The Dominion Bank was chartered in 1871 and headquartered in Toronto, making it one of the smaller chartered banks operating under the Bank Act regime. Its early note issues were handled by the American Bank Note Company in New York, which supplied engraved plates to dozens of Canadian chartered banks during this period — the quality of the intaglio work was the primary deterrent to counterfeiting at a time when federal oversight of private bank note production remained relatively limited.
Surviving 1888-dated examples from this issuer are genuinely uncommon. The Dominion Bank was eventually absorbed by the Toronto-Dominion Bank upon merger in 1955, and redemption obligations on outstanding chartered bank notes had been extinguished years earlier under the 1945 Bank Act amendments.