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The obverse is printed in black on white cotton paper and displays a central vignette of a rocky landscape with figures, flanked on the left by the dual denominations '4' and 'ONE POUND / FOUR DOLLARS' in ornate counters, and on the right by a matching counter reading 'FOUR DOLLARS' with a large numeral '4'. The bank title 'THE GORE BANK' is set in bold letterpress across the centre, above the promise text and the equivalent value 'TWENTY SHILLINGS', with a manuscript date and place of issue reading 'Hamilton, U.C.' visible below. Two manuscript signatures of bank officers appear at the foot of the note, alongside a printed serial number. |
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The reverse is unprinted, showing only the plain aged cotton paper with heavy wear, staining, and fold lines consistent with extended circulation. No vignette, text, or decorative elements are present on this side. |
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The Gore Bank was chartered in 1835 and headquartered in Hamilton, Upper Canada — then a modest market town at the western end of Lake Ontario. The four-dollar denomination exists because Upper Canada's commercial world straddled two monetary systems simultaneously: American dollars dominated trade with the United States while British pounds governed colonial accounting. Issuing a note at the four-to-one conversion rate was a practical concession to that reality, not a monetary eccentricity.
Gore survived the financial panics of the late 1830s that destroyed several rival Upper Canadian chartered banks, and continued issuing notes through the transition to the Province of Canada after 1841. It was eventually absorbed by the Canadian Bank of Commerce in 1870.