Catalog
2 Shillings 6 Pence
| Issuer | City Bank, New Brunswick |
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| Year | 1838 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S972A |
| Obverse description | Black letterpress note with the bank title CITY BANK in large bold type across the centre. A central vignette depicts a steam locomotive in motion, flanked left and right by two oval denomination cartouches each reading 2/6 CURRENCY. The vertical side margins carry the full denomination legend TWO SHILLINGS AND SIX PENCE in uppercase, and the text THE PRESIDENT and DIRECTORS & Co. appears beneath the flanking cartouches. The lower portion carries manuscript place name ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK and a handwritten signature. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on aged cotton paper, showing the natural texture and toning of the stock with no design elements, vignettes, or inscriptions. |
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City Bank of New Brunswick was a short-lived chartered institution operating in what was still a British colonial province — New Brunswick wouldn't enter Confederation for another three decades. Denominations in shillings and pence were standard colonial practice, pegged to the Halifax currency scale rather than sterling, a distinction that caused genuine commercial confusion when notes crossed provincial lines.
P#972A is rare enough that auction appearances are infrequent. Most surviving City Bank paper shows heavy wear, consistent with active mercantile use in a port economy heavily dependent on the timber trade.