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100 Dollars
| Issuer | Imperial Bank of Canada |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black ink on white cotton paper with a rose-pink underprint bearing the bank's name and denomination repeated across the borders. A central vignette presents the Canadian coat of arms flanked by two lions, with the denomination numeral '100' rendered in large intaglio figures at each lateral margin. The issuer's title 'Imperial Bank of Canada' appears in a bold arched legend at the top, with the promise to pay 'ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS' inscribed in an ornate guilloche band across the lower centre, above two manuscript-style signature lines. |
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| Obverse lettering | IMPERIAL BANK OF CANADA 100 HUNDRED 100 HUNDRED Will pay to the bearer on demand ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS |
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The Imperial Bank of Canada was absorbed by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in 1961, but in 1917 it was a mid-sized Toronto-chartered institution competing aggressively in western Canadian markets. High-denomination chartered bank notes of this period were primarily instruments of interbank settlement and commercial credit — a $100 note in circulation was unusual enough to attract scrutiny.
The American Bank Note Company operated a Montreal facility that handled much of its Canadian chartered bank work, keeping production domestic for customs and practical reasons. The coloured underprint was the era's standard deterrent against photo-mechanical counterfeiting, which had become a genuine threat by the mid-1910s.