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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Quebec Bank |
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| Year | 1908 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in olive-green and black, centered on a large panoramic vignette of the Quebec City harbour with sailing vessels and the city skyline in the background, framed by elaborate guilloche borders. The bank title THE QUEBEC BANK is set in bold letterpress across the centre, with the promise text WILL PAY TEN DOLLARS TO BEARER ON DEMAND below. Large numeral 10 counters appear at each corner, with the date Quebec, June 1, 1908 and a manuscript president's signature at the lower centre, alongside serial number prefixes and sheet letter in black. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green, with a central intaglio vignette of the Quebec provincial coat of arms flanked by two allegorical figures — a hunter with a rifle and a lumberjack with an axe — set within an ornate guilloche frame. Large numeral 10 medallions appear to the left and right, and the bank name QUEBEC BANK is inscribed in a solid panel at the base of the central vignette. The printer's imprint of the American Bank Note Company, Ottawa, appears at the lower margin. |
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The Quebec Bank was a Montreal-based chartered bank that operated from 1818 until its absorption by the Royal Bank of Canada in 1917. By 1908, the Canadian chartered bank note system was already living on borrowed time — the 1914 Finance Act and subsequent revisions would steadily displace private bank currency in favor of Dominion notes — making this a late-period issue from an institution with fewer than a decade left.
The American Bank Note Company maintained a facility in Ottawa, where this note was produced. That Ottawa plant handled a substantial share of Canadian chartered bank work in the early twentieth century, distinct from ABNC's main New York operations.