Catalog
10 Dollars
| Issuer | Canadian Bank of Commerce, Toronto |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio-printed note with a richly engraved allegorical vignette spanning the full width of the note; a reclining female figure occupies the lower centre, flanked on the left by a standing classical figure and on the right by a seated male figure with attendant cherubs, all executed in fine line engraving. The bold guilloche-framed legend THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE is inscribed across the upper portion, with TORONTO and the date 2ND JANUARY, 1917 to the right of centre, and the denomination TEN DOLLARS rendered in large red overprint at centre. Serial numbers appear in red at left and right, with the letter C as branch prefix, and two manuscript signatures are present below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE TEN X |
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The Canadian Bank of Commerce was one of several large chartered banks still issuing their own currency under the Bank Act — a system that persisted in Canada until the Bank of Canada's monopoly took full effect in 1935. The 1917 date places this note squarely in wartime, when Dominion of Canada notes and chartered bank paper circulated side by side under considerable public pressure on financial institutions to support war bond drives.
American Bank Note Company produced the series from its New York facilities, as it did for a substantial portion of Canadian chartered bank output during this period. The ABNC's engraving quality on Canadian commercial bank work was consistently high — arguably the most technically accomplished private currency printing of the era in North America.
The P#966A designation distinguishes this from later signature combinations within the same basic issue.