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2 Dollars Henry's Bank Bas-Canada
| Issuer | Henry's Bank |
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| Year | 1835 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | To Edmund Henry HENRY'S BANK Lower Canada 2 2 A demande payez à l'ordre de L.B. Varin (?) à votre bureau à Montréal DEUX PIASTRES pour valeur reçue On demand pay to the order of L. B. Varin (?) at your Office in Montreal TWO DOLLARS for value received Accepted LAPRAIRIE II II Deux Deux |
| Reverse description | Uniface plain paper reverse showing bleed-through impressions from the obverse vignette and text. A handwritten endorsement signature appears at the upper left, consistent with the note's circulation and acceptance practice in Lower Canada. |
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Henry's Bank was one of the short-lived private banks that proliferated in Lower Canada during the 1830s, operating outside the chartered banking system at a time when the colonial legislature and the Château Clique were locked in bitter disputes over financial control. These institutions issued notes on little more than the personal credit of their proprietors, and most collapsed or were wound up before Confederation made them irrelevant.
The S-prefix Pick reference places this firmly in the speculative or unchartered category. Surviving examples are rare precisely because circulation was local and brief.