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100 Dollars / 20 Pounds, 16 Shillings, and 8 Pence
| Issuer | The Royal Bank of Canada |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT GEORGETOWN BRITISH GUIANA THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN BRITISH GUIANA CURRENCY BEING THE EQUIVALENT OF TWENTY POUNDS SIXTEEN SHILLINGS AND EIGHT PENCE REDEEMABLE ONLY IN BRITISH GUIANA GEORGETOWN BRITISH GUIANA ONE HUNDRED BRITISH GUIANA DOLLARS THE EQUIVALENT OF £20 -16-8 |
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| Reverse lettering | ONE HUNDRED BRITISH GUIANA DOLLARS THE EQUIVALENT OF £20 -16-8 ONE HUNDRED BRITISH GUIANA DOLLARS THE EQUIVALENT OF £20 -16-8 THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA |
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The dual denomination — $100 and its sterling equivalent of £20 16s 8d — reflects the transitional monetary reality of early twentieth-century Canada, where exchange transactions between dollar and pound accounts were still common enough to warrant printing both values on the face of a high-denomination commercial note. By the early 1920s that practice was dying out, and the Royal Bank quietly abandoned sterling co-denominations on subsequent issues.
The American Bank Note Company's Ottawa facility, rather than its New York plant, handled production — a distinction that matters for provenance, as Ottawa-printed ABNCo work from this period is less extensively catalogued than New York output.