Catalog
10 Dollars
| Issuer | Imperial Bank of Canada |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a single dark green tone, with a large central panel bearing the text 'IMPERIAL BANK OF CANADA' in bold serif lettering within an ornate lathe-work frame surrounded by rows of decorative asterisks. The denomination 'TEN' appears in guilloche cartouches at the top and bottom centres, with intaglio numeral '10' counters at the far left and right sides within ornate scrollwork borders. |
| Reverse lettering | IMPERIAL BANK OF CANADA TEN 10 |
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The Imperial Bank of Canada was a Toronto-based chartered bank that operated independently until its 1961 merger with the Canadian Bank of Commerce to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. In 1915, Canadian chartered banks still issued their own circulating currency under the Bank Act — a practice that would be progressively curtailed over the following two decades as the Dominion and later the Bank of Canada asserted tighter control over note issuance.
The British American Bank Note Company had been the dominant commercial printer of Canadian chartered bank notes since the 1860s, and by 1915 the working relationship between BABN and most major Toronto and Montreal institutions was well established. The Montreal press address is the printer's, not the bank's.