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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of British Columbia, Victoria |
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| Year | 1894 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | THE BANK OF BRITISH COLUMBIA INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1862 TEN TEN DOLLARS promises to pay to the Bearer on demand at their office in Victoria, B.C. FOR THE COURT OF DIRECTORS VICTORIA, B.C. JAN. 1st, 1894 10 Ento MANAGER American Bank Note Co. New York |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF BRITISH COLUMBIA TEN DOLLARS TEN DOLLARS TEN TEN 10 10 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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The Bank of British Columbia was absorbed by the Canadian Bank of Commerce in 1901, making any surviving notes from its final years scarce simply by attrition — the acquiring bank had little reason to preserve old stock. This 1894 issue came during a period when the Victoria-based institution was already contracting, its Pacific Northwest ambitions largely unrealized after decades of competition from better-capitalized eastern Canadian banks.
The American Bank Note Company's involvement is typical for western Canadian chartered banks of the period, which routinely looked south rather than to British printers despite colonial ties. ABNC's New York plant produced notes for dozens of competing institutions simultaneously, and shared border elements between contracts were not uncommon.