Catalog
100 Dollars
| Issuer | Royal Bank of Canada |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Size | 185 × 82 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on a yellow underprint with red serial numbers. The central vignette presents a seated allegorical female figure facing left, with a caduceus at right; black overprints reading 'BARBADOS' appear at the left and right margins, with a vertical overprint 'PAYABLE AT BRIDGETOWN BARBADOS' at centre. The note bears the date 'JAN 2nd, 1909' and is denominated 'ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS'. |
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| Reverse description | Black intaglio print on an orange and yellow guilloche underprint. The British royal coat of arms is centrally placed, flanked by elaborate decorative border work, with the denomination numeral '100' repeated at multiple points in the design. |
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The Royal Bank of Canada was still operating primarily out of Montreal when this note was issued, having only recently absorbed the Union Bank of Halifax and expanded aggressively into the Caribbean. The $100 denomination served wholesale and interbank settlement far more than retail trade — ordinary Canadians rarely handled notes of this value, and most examples that survived did so because they were repatriated from branch vaults rather than worn out in circulation.
American Bank Note Company held the Royal Bank contract for this period, a common arrangement for Canadian chartered banks who preferred the security and engraving quality that ABNC could guarantee over domestic options.