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| 正面描述 | The obverse is engraved in a classic early 19th-century style, with the Royal Arms vignette centred at the top surmounted by a crown and flanked by lion and unicorn supporters. The bank title 'Montreal Bank' is rendered in large script lettering across the centre of the note, with the promise-to-pay text in letterpress surrounding it. Rectangular counter panels bearing the denomination '100' appear at each corner, with 'ONE HUNDRED' running vertically in the left border and 'CENT PIASTRES' in the right border. A small vignette of a cashier's desk or safe appears at the lower centre, with spaces for manuscript date, serial number, and signatures of the Cashier and President. |
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| 正面铭文 | ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS Montreal Bank ONE HUNDRED CENT PIASTRES 100 The President, Directors and Company of the Montreal Bank promise to pay or cause to be paid ONE HUNDRED Dollars on demand out of the joint funds of the Association, and no other. Montreal CASHIER PREST |
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The Montreal Bank — later renamed the Bank of Montreal — was chartered in 1817, making this one of the earliest notes issued by what would become Canada's oldest chartered bank. In 1818 the institution had barely begun operations, and notes of this denomination were essentially instruments of commercial credit between merchants, not everyday currency. High-denomination notes from infant colonial banks rarely left the hands of a small circle of traders and correspondents.
Surviving examples from this first emission are exceptionally rare. The PS prefix in the reference signals its listing under obsolete North American bank issues, and the DA suffix typically denotes a proof or specimen variant — worth confirming against the archive record before cataloging as an issued note.