Catalog
5 Dollars
| Issuer | Royal Bank of Canada |
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| Year | 1913 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white cotton paper with a fine guilloche border frame. Two oval portrait vignettes flank a central heraldic shield of Canada surmounted by a crown; the left portrait is the bank's cashier and the right is the president, both in formal attire. The upper panel carries the inscriptions DOMINION OF CANADA and THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, with WILL PAY TO BEARER ON DEMAND and the date line MONTREAL, JAN. 2ND 1913 below; two manuscript signatures appear at the bottom, with the denomination FIVE DOLLARS and numeral 5 repeated in the corners. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green intaglio, the reverse centres on the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom — a crowned shield supported by a lion and a unicorn above the motto DIEU ET MON DROIT — flanked on either side by a large lathe-work rosette with the word FIVE worked into the guilloche. THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA is lettered across the top panel, and the denomination FIVE 5 FIVE runs along the bottom border. |
| Reverse lettering | THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA DIEU ET MON DROIT FIVE 5 FIVE |
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