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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Dominion Bank |
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| Year | 1900-1910 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark green and black intaglio on a green guilloche underprint, the obverse carries the bank title 'THE DOMINION BANK' in an arc across the top, with 'TORONTO' and the date 'Jan. 2, 1900' inscribed below. The central vignette presents a classical allegorical female figure — likely Commerce or Britannia — seated between a recumbent lion and a shield, accompanied by a book and related attributes. Serial numbers flank the vignette at upper left and upper right, while 'TEN DOLLARS' is lettered at the base centre with numeral counters '10' at both lower corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | THE DOMINION BANK 10 |
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The Dominion Bank was a Toronto-chartered institution founded in 1871, and its early twentieth-century note issues were handled entirely by the American Bank Note Company — a common arrangement for Canadian chartered banks of that period, when domestic printing capacity was limited and ABNC's security engraving work was trusted across the continent. The Ottawa designation refers to ABNC's Canadian plant, established to serve the chartered bank market without the tariff complications of cross-border shipment.
Chartered bank notes in Canada remained legal tender for private-sector exchange until the Bank of Canada Act of 1934 finally phased them out, making issues like this one functional currency for over three decades after printing.