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100 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Hamilton |
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| Year | 1904 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF HAMILTON DOMINION OF CANADA HAMILTON, 2ND JAN, 1904 WILL PAY TO BEARER ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ON DEMAND 100 PRESIDENT PROVINCIAL MANAGER |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a rich brown monochrome with an elaborate lathe-work guilloche pattern at centre, incorporating a large numeral 100 superimposed over concentric engine-turned rings and flanked by ornate acanthus scrollwork. The bank title BANK OF HAMILTON is set across the upper portion, with DOMINION OF CANADA and ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS in framed panels to the right. Numeral counters 100 are repeated in the upper-left and both right corners within scalloped borders. |
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The Bank of Hamilton was one of Ontario's oldest chartered banks, founded in 1872 and eventually absorbed by the Canadian Bank of Commerce in 1924. By 1904, Hamilton had long since lost its early bid to be the financial capital of Upper Canada, but the bank remained a legitimate regional institution with branches across southern Ontario. A $100 denomination would have served primarily commercial and inter-bank purposes — retail customers rarely handled notes of this size.
Western Bank Note Company in Chicago handled printing for numerous Canadian chartered banks during this period, a reminder that Canadian currency printing was not domestically consolidated until much later. The note predates the 1923 Home Bank collapse, which accelerated the push toward tighter federal oversight of chartered bank issuance.