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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Montreal |
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| Year | 1895 |
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| Printer | British American Bank Note Company, Ottawa |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF MONTREAL TO BEARER ON DEMAND WILL PAY TEN 10 TEN Montreal, Jan. 2nd, 1895 TEN DOLLARS 10 PAID UP CAPITAL $12,000,000 10 TEN DOLLARS 10 BRITISH AMERICA BANK NOTE CO OTTAWA |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF MONTREAL TEN DOLLARS 10 British American Bank Note Co. Ottawa |
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The Bank of Montreal was the oldest chartered bank in Canada when this note was issued, and by the 1890s it functioned as something close to a de facto central bank — handling government accounts and acting as fiscal agent for the Dominion. Private chartered bank notes like this one remained legal tender across Canada until the Bank of Canada Act of 1934 finally pushed commercial banks out of the currency business entirely.
The British American Bank Note Company had been printing for the major chartered banks since the 1860s and by 1895 was firmly established in Ottawa. Notes from this series are prone to corner wear and fold splits along the horizontal center crease, a known weakness in this paper stock.