Catalog
20 Dollars
| Issuer | Standard Bank of Canada, Toronto |
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| Year | 1914-1919 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | THE STANDARD BANK OF CANADA WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND TWENTY DOLLARS TORONTO PRESIDENT GENERAL MANAGER XX 20 |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate central medallion bearing the bank's heraldic lion device and the legend 'The Standard Bank of Canada, Estd. 1855', surrounded by dense lathe-work guilloche patterns. Large counters with the numeral '20' appear at each side of the medallion, and further geometric guilloche panels fill the corners and borders. The denomination 'TWENTY DOLLARS' is lettered along the bottom in bold serif type. |
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The Standard Bank of Canada was a Nova Scotia-chartered institution that expanded aggressively into Ontario before merging with the Canadian Bank of Commerce in 1928. By the time this note was issued, Canadian chartered banks were still legally permitted to issue their own currency under the Bank Act — a right that would survive until 1944 but was already being squeezed by Dominion notes and the practical dominance of government-backed paper.
ABNC handled virtually all serious Canadian chartered bank printing of this period. The wartime years created unusual pressure on note stocks, and replacement cycles were shorter than peacetime norms.