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2 Dollars = 10 Shillings
| Uitgever | Agricultural Bank, Toronto |
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| Jaar | 1837 |
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| Waarde | 2 Dollars |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Engraved in the style characteristic of early North American private bank note production, the obverse carries a central pastoral vignette with cattle and agricultural figures in a landscape, flanked on the left by a standing female allegorical figure and on the right by a smaller oval vignette with a seated figure. The heading AGRICULTURAL BANK and inscription Upper Canada appear across the upper portion, with the denomination TWO in large letterpress numerals at each corner. The lower section bears a manuscript promise-to-pay text citing TEN SHILLINGS CURRENCY, the place of issue Toronto, the date 1 October 1837, and two manuscript signatures. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | AGRICULTURAL BANK Upper Canada TWO TEN SHILLINGS CURRENCY Promises to pay at its OFFICE in Matress to A. Buez or bearer on demand for Value received Toronto 1 Oct 1837 |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Agricultural Bank of Toronto was one of several short-lived Upper Canadian private banks that collapsed during the financial panic of 1837 — the same year this note was issued. The institution failed before completing even a full year of meaningful operation, which means notes from this bank surfaced almost immediately as worthless paper, and many were simply discarded. Survivors are scarce precisely because they had no reason to be kept.
The dual denomination — dollars and shillings — reflects the monetary confusion of pre-Confederation Upper Canada, where British sterling, American dollars, and local Halifax Currency circulated simultaneously with no fixed official relationship enforced at street level.