10 Dollars

Issuer	Bank of Montreal
Year	1935
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Size	189 x 92 mm
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Obverse description	Black intaglio print on white paper with intricate guilloche border work running along all four margins. At centre, the denomination TEN DOLLARS is set within an ornate lathe-work oval underprint, flanked by two portrait vignettes: a facing three-quarter portrait of a gentleman at left and a right-facing portrait of another gentleman at right. The bank title THE BANK OF MONTREAL arches across the upper centre in bold serif lettering, with the date MONTREAL, 2ND JAN. 1935 and the promise clause WILL PAY TO BEARER ON DEMAND printed below. Serial numbers appear in red at upper left and right, with prefix letter A repeated at mid-field on each side.
Obverse lettering	THE BANK OF MONTREAL WILL PAY TO BEARER ON DEMAND TEN DOLLARS MONTREAL, 2ND JAN. 1935 GENERAL MANAGER PRESIDENT CANADIAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, LIMITED
Reverse description	Printed entirely in green, the reverse is dominated by a detailed architectural vignette of the Bank of Montreal's Toronto Branch building, rendered in fine intaglio line engraving and set within an elaborate scrollwork frame. The denomination numeral 10 appears in large guilloche roundels at left and right, with BANK OF MONTREAL arching across the top in bold capitals. Below the architectural vignette, the inscription TORONTO BRANCH and TEN DOLLARS are lettered in a plain serif face, with the printer's imprint CANADIAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, LIMITED running along the lower margin.
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