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| 表面の説明 | The obverse is printed in dark green and black intaglio on white cotton paper, with the bank title THE DOMINION BANK arched across the top in bold serif lettering. Two oval portrait vignettes flank a central guilloche panel bearing the numeral 20 in ornate engraved surround; the left portrait is of a man in formal attire facing right, and the right portrait shows a similarly dressed gentleman facing left. The date TORONTO, 1ST FEBY. 1931 is inscribed below the central vignette, with serial number and prefix letter printed in red, and TWO SIGNATURES appear along the lower margin above the titles PRESIDENT and GENERAL MANAGER. |
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| 裏面の説明 | The reverse is printed in purple-violet intaglio and carries a large central vignette of a detailed map of Canada extending from coast to coast, with provincial boundaries clearly delineated. The bank title THE DOMINION BANK is inscribed at the top, and TWENTY DOLLARS appears along the bottom margin. Ornate guilloche panels with the numeral 20 occupy each of the four corners, framing the central cartographic vignette. |
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The Dominion Bank was one of Canada's older chartered banks, established in 1871 and eventually absorbed into the Toronto-Dominion Bank merger of 1955. By 1931, the chartered bank note system was already in structural decline — the Bank of Canada Act would follow in 1934, and with it the gradual withdrawal of chartered bank currency privileges. This note was issued late in that window.
The Canadian Bank Note Company in Ottawa printed for most of the major chartered institutions during this period, and production quality was consistent across the series. Watermarking on cotton-substrate notes of this type was conventional security practice, not a response to any specific counterfeiting incident known to this series.
High-denomination chartered notes from 1931 saw limited everyday circulation; $20 was a substantial sum during the Depression.