Catalog
100 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Montreal |
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| Year | 1931 |
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| Currency | Canadian Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Reverse description | Printed throughout in green intaglio, the reverse centres on a large architectural vignette of the Bank of Montreal's head office on St. James Street, Montreal, rendered in fine line engraving with a columned neoclassical facade. Large denomination counters bearing the numeral 100 appear at left and right within elaborate guilloche rosettes, with the legend ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS along the lower margin. The composition is enclosed by an intricate lathe-work border of repeating geometric patterns, and the printer's imprint CANADIAN BANK NOTE COMPANY LIMITED runs along the lower edge. |
| Reverse lettering | BANK OF MONTREAL ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS 100 CANADIAN BANK NOTE COMPANY LIMITED |
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The Bank of Montreal was one of Canada's chartered banks still issuing its own currency in 1931 — a practice that would end entirely with the Bank of Canada Act of 1934 and the subsequent withdrawal of chartered bank notes from circulation beginning in 1935. At the $100 denomination, these notes were essentially instruments of commercial and interbank settlement rather than everyday currency; very few would have passed through ordinary hands.
The Canadian Bank Note Company in Ottawa had by this point long dominated high-security printing contracts for Canadian chartered issues. Surviving examples at this denomination tend to show minimal handling wear for the obvious reason.