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4 Dollars
| Issuer | Banque Jacques Cartier |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on white paper with a green underprint. At the upper centre, the bank title LA BANQUE JACQUES CARTIER / PROVINCE DE QUEBEC arches across the width of the note. A central vignette shows a seated male portrait figure flanked by allegorical figures at left and right; the denomination appears in both French (QUATRE PIASTRES) and English (FOUR DOLLARS) on either side of the central vignette. The place of issue MONTREAL and date 2 Mars 1870 appear at the lower centre, with capital statement CAPITAL $1,000,000, and two manuscript signatures of the Caissier and Président along the bottom. |
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| Reverse lettering | LA BANQUE JACQUES CARTIER QUATRE |
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The Banque Jacques Cartier was a Montreal commercial bank chartered in 1861, operating through some of the most turbulent years in Canadian banking history before its collapse in 1899. This $4 denomination is a peculiarity worth noting: four-dollar notes were a legitimate fixture of Canadian private banking practice, designed to work alongside the prevailing decimal and pre-decimal coinage in a way that minimized the need for large coin payouts at the till.
The British American Bank Note Company, established in Ottawa and Montreal in 1866, was printing for numerous chartered banks by 1870 and quickly became the dominant security printer in the country — a position it held for well over a century.