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20 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of British Columbia, Victoria |
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| Year | 1894 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S218 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a pale green-grey tone and carries a mirror-image impression of the central miner vignette and flanking guilloche rosettes, consistent with the back printing of an unissued or cancelled note. Cancellation punch holes are present along the lower margin. |
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| Variants | P#S218a - Issued note. Rare P#S218p - Face and back proofs P#S218s - Specimen |
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The Bank of British Columbia was a London-incorporated institution that operated branches across the Pacific Northwest, and by 1894 it was already in terminal decline — it was absorbed by the Canadian Bank of Commerce in 1901 after years of shrinking deposits and branch closures following the collapse of the regional real estate boom. Notes from the final decade of its operation are consequently scarce, and the $20 denomination sees the least survival of the series.
The American Bank Note Company held the contract for this series, producing the work at their New York facility. ABNC's engraved intaglio printing is characteristic of high-security commercial work of the period.