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100 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of British North America, Montreal |
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| Year | 1911 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central intaglio vignette of Queen Victoria in a mature portrait, wearing her crown and veil, set within an oval frame flanked by the denomination panels reading ONE HUNDRED and DOLLARS. The bank title THE BANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA runs across the top in bold Gothic lettering, with INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHAR[TER] beneath. Elaborate guilloche underprint work fills the corners and margins, with the numeral 100 repeated in each corner and the date JULY 3rd, 1911 and place of issue MONTREAL noted at lower left and right respectively. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green intaglio on a fine guilloche background, centered on a large heraldic vignette of the bank's coat of arms supported by a sailor at left and a figure at right, with the motto VIS UNITA FORTIOR on a ribbon below. The bank title THE BANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA arches across the top, and the denomination ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS appears in a panel at the bottom center. The numeral 100 is set in large counters at each corner within intricate lathe-work borders. |
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The Bank of British North America, though headquartered in Montreal, was incorporated by Royal Charter in London in 1836 and retained strong British institutional ties throughout its existence — which explains why Waterlow and Sons remained its printer of choice well into the twentieth century. By 1911, BBNA was already in a weakened competitive position against the big Canadian chartered banks, and it was absorbed by the Bank of Montreal in 1918.
High-denomination notes of this era circulated almost exclusively between businesses and clearing houses, meaning surviving examples typically show either heavy commercial handling or near-pristine storage — rarely anything in between. Few were printed relative to lower values.