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4 Dollars
| Issuer | Peoples Bank of Halifax |
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| Year | 1870 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Protection type | Intricate lathe-work guilloche |
| Protection description | Dense engraved guilloche patterns on both obverse and reverse, serving as anti-counterfeiting geometric underprint typical of British American Bank Note Co. productions of the period. |
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The People's Bank of Halifax was a Nova Scotia institution operating in the years immediately after Confederation, when the question of whether Maritime banks would survive absorption into the new Dominion's financial order was genuinely unresolved. A $4 denomination was a peculiarly Maritime habit — rooted in the old currency equivalence of one pound sterling to four dollars — and Nova Scotian banks clung to it long after central Canadian institutions had abandoned non-decimal denominations.
British American Bank Note Co. was still splitting production between its Montreal and Ottawa facilities during this period, a logistical arrangement that occasionally produced subtle plate differences within the same series.