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2 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Brantford, Brantford |
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| Year | 1859 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CAPITAL $ 1,000,000 American Bank Note Company THE BANK OF BRANTFORD Will pay TWO DOLLARS to Bearer on demand BRANTFORD INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT — PROVINCE OF CANADA 2 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially plain, printed on cream-coloured cotton paper with faint residual ink show-through from the obverse vignettes visible in raking light, consistent with the thin paper stock typical of mid-nineteenth-century Canadian chartered bank issues. A ghosted impression of the obverse central vignette and corner numerals is discernible, but no independent design elements are present on this side. |
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The Bank of Brantford was a short-lived Upper Canadian chartered bank — it failed in 1859, the same year this note was issued, making any surviving circulated example a rarity by definition. Notes from collapsed institutions were frequently redeemed at a discount, hoarded as curiosities, or simply destroyed, and the Bank of Brantford's brief existence left a thin paper trail in every sense.
American Bank Note Company handled production from its New York shop, then only recently consolidated from the merger of several competing security printers in 1858.