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100 Piastres / Dollars
| Issuer | La Banque Nationale |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | LA BANQUE NATIONALE QUÉBEC, LE 2 NOVEMBRE 1922 PAIERA AU PORTEUR À DEMANDE CENT PIASTRES WILL PAY TO BEARER ON DEMAND ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS 100 GÉRANT GÉNÉRAL PRÉSIDENT SPECIMEN |
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| Reverse lettering | LA BANQUE NATIONALE 100 PIASTRES AGRICULTURE INDUSTRIA |
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La Banque Nationale was a Quebec-chartered private bank that collapsed in 1925, making its final years of issue — including this 1922 note — among the last it ever produced. The American Bank Note Company in New York handled the printing, as it did for the overwhelming majority of Canadian chartered bank notes during this period; the relationship between ABNC and the chartered banks was essentially institutional, running for decades without interruption.
The dual denomination — piastres and dollars — reflects Quebec's long resistance to abandoning the piastre as the preferred term in French-language commerce, even well after Confederation standardized the dollar nationally in 1871.