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10 Dollars / Piastres
| Issuer | Banque de St. Hyacinthe |
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| Year | 1880 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars / Piastres |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio note with the bank title LA BANQUE DE ST. HYACINTHE in large letters across the upper centre, beneath the inscription PROVINCE DE QUÉBEC. A central vignette shows a farmer ploughing with a team of oxen, while to the left a standing female allegorical figure tends sheep; to the right, an inset portrait of a bearded gentleman identified as PRÉSIDENT. The denomination 10 appears in guilloche medallions at each corner, with the bilingual value TEN DOLLARS / DIX PIASTRES printed across the centre, serial number and branch letter in black. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate central cartouche with intricate lathe-work border enclosing the bank name BANQUE DE ST. HYACINTHE in bold serif lettering. Matching guilloche rosette medallions at the left and right display the numeral X, and the entire design is composed of finely engraved engine-turned geometric patterns with scalloped outer borders. |
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The Banque de St. Hyacinthe was a regional Quebec institution whose entire chartered existence lasted barely two decades — it opened in 1874 and collapsed in 1908, leaving a relatively thin trail of surviving notes. The bilingual denomination line, "Dollars / Piastres," reflects the linguistic compromise baked into Quebec commercial banking of the period, where English accounting conventions and French-speaking depositors had to coexist on the same piece of paper.
The British American Bank Note Company, operating out of Montreal by this point, had effectively cornered the market on Canadian chartered bank printing in the 1870s and 1880s. Pick 928 is not a common survivor — the bank's limited geographic footprint in the St. Hyacinthe region meant lower original print runs than the major Montreal or Toronto institutions.