Catalog
10 Dollars
| Issuer | The Dominion Bank |
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| Year | 1935 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black intaglio on an orange and pink guilloche underprint, with portrait vignettes of two bank officers — one at the left and one at the right — framed within oval borders. The centre carries an ornate numeral panel with the denomination 10 rendered in interlocking guilloche work, flanked by the bank title THE DOMINION BANK in bold letterpress across the top. The place and date of issue, TORONTO, 2ND JAN. 1935, appear above the central vignette, with TWO FACSIMILE SIGNATURES of bank officers printed below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in orange, dominated by a large central vignette of a cartographic map of Canada, rendered in fine engraved detail and occupying the majority of the note's face. Circular lathe-work numeral medallions bearing the value 10 are positioned at the left and right flanks, enclosed within ornate guilloche borders. The bank title THE DOMINION BANK runs across the top, with TEN DOLLARS along the bottom and the printer's imprint CANADIAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, LIMITED in small text beneath. |
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The Dominion Bank was a Toronto-chartered institution that had been operating since 1871, but by 1935 it was in its final years of independent existence — the bank merged with the Canadian Bank of Commerce in 1931, meaning this note was technically issued under a name that had already been absorbed. Canadian chartered banks retained the right to issue their own currency well into the twentieth century under the Bank Act, but the 1944 revisions ultimately ended that privilege for good, making the mid-1930s issues among the last of the chartered bank series.
The Canadian Bank Note Company printed for nearly every major chartered institution of the period, and distinguishing one house's production from another requires close attention to serial number positioning and plate letter placement.