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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Northern Crown Bank, Winnipeg |
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| Year | 1908 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a large vignette at left of a farmer operating a horse-drawn harvesting machine in a wheat field, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The bank title 'THE NORTHERN CROWN BANK' arcs across the top in bold letterpress, flanked by ornate guilloche work and numeral '10' counters at the upper corners. The centre panel carries the denomination 'TEN DOLLARS' within an elaborate lathe-work frame, with the place and date of issue 'WINNIPEG, JULY 2ND 1908' below, and the promise clause 'WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND' printed above. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE NORTHERN CROWN BANK WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND TEN DOLLARS WINNIPEG, JULY 2ND 1908 COUNTERSIGNED PRESIDENT TEN 10 |
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The Northern Crown Bank was one of the shorter-lived chartered banks in Canadian history, incorporated in 1904 and absorbed by the Royal Bank of Canada in 1918 after a troubled final decade. It operated primarily across Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and its note issues are correspondingly scarce — the bank never achieved the geographic reach or capitalization of its eastern rivals, which kept print runs modest.
The British American Bank Note Company in Ottawa handled virtually all of the Northern Crown's issued paper. D.H. McMillan served as the bank's general manager; the cashier countersignature on surviving examples varies, a small wrinkle that occasionally matters to specialists assembling complete signature sets for this issuer.