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4 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Liverpool |
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| Year | 1871 |
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| In circulation to | 1871 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green and displays a bold, symmetrical guilloche design centered on a circular lozenge motif. Large numeral '4' counters appear at both left and right within elaborately engraved scrollwork frames. The inscription 'BANK OF' arches across the upper portion of the central medallion, with 'LIVERPOOL' along the lower arc, enclosing a small central numeral '17'. |
| Reverse lettering | BANK OF LIVERPOOL 4 4 |
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The Bank of Liverpool was a Nova Scotia institution — Liverpool here refers to the town on the province's South Shore, not the English city. A four-dollar denomination was a practical necessity in British North America, where the Spanish milled dollar and its fractions had left behind a complex arithmetic of exchange rates that even Confederation in 1867 failed to immediately simplify. The hybrid dollar-pound economy made fours and twos genuinely useful denominations, not curiosities.
The British American Bank Note Company, newly established in Montreal by 1866, printed this note early in its operational history. BABN would go on to dominate Canadian chartered bank printing for decades, but in 1871 the firm was still consolidating its client base from older engravers.
The Bank of Liverpool held a provincial charter and operated on a modest regional scale. Its notes are rare in any condition.