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100 Dollars
| Issuer | Banque d'Hochelaga |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown and black with a red guilloche underprint, and carries a red diagonal SPECIMEN / NO VALUE overprint. A portrait vignette of a bearded gentleman appears at the left, while a standing figure in period costume occupies the right. The central vignette presents a scenic mountain lake landscape framed by elaborate scrollwork, below the bank title in ornate lettering and the denomination CENT DOLLARS at centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE D'HOCHELAGA DOMINION OF CANADA CENT DOLLARS MONTREAL 100 DOLLARS SPECIMEN NO VALUE |
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The Banque d'Hochelaga was a Montreal-based French-Canadian institution founded in 1873 to serve a commercial community largely shut out of the Anglo-dominated banking establishment. By 1914 it had grown substantially, but the $100 denomination would have seen almost no retail circulation — notes of this value moved between businesses and clearing houses, not tills. Waterlow & Sons produced the plates in London, a common arrangement for Canadian chartered banks that lacked domestic security printing capacity of this scale.
The bank merged into the Banque Canadienne Nationale in 1924. High-denomination survivors from before that merger are genuinely rare.