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100 Dollars
| Issuer | Metropolitan Bank |
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| Year | 1902 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central intaglio vignette of miners at work in a shaft, rendered in fine engraved detail with figures operating drilling equipment underground. The bank title THE METROPOLITAN BANK arcs in bold letterpress across the upper portion, flanked by ornate guilloche panels bearing the denomination numeral 100 in each corner. The place and date TORONTO, NOVEMBER 5TH 1902 appear at the top, with the promise clause I WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND and the denomination legend ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS set below the vignette, above the signature lines for PRESIDENT and COUNTER-SIGNED. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE METROPOLITAN BANK TORONTO, NOVEMBER 5TH 1902 I WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS 100 PRESIDENT COUNTER-SIGNED American Bank Note Co. Ottawa |
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The Metropolitan Bank of Canada was a Toronto-based chartered bank that operated from 1902 until its absorption by the Bank of Nova Scotia in 1914. This $100 note would have been issued right at the bank's founding year, making early-dated examples among the first instruments the institution ever put into circulation. High-denomination chartered bank notes of this period saw limited retail use — they moved primarily between merchants, brokers, and clearing houses.
ABNC's Ottawa facility handled a substantial share of Canadian chartered bank printing in this period, operating under contract arrangements that kept production local after earlier decades of sending plate work to New York.