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4 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Acadia |
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| Year | 1872 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse description | Black on green underprint. The centre vignette presents an allegorical scene with cherubs and a decorative fountain, flanked on both sides by large ornate medallions bearing the numeral '4' in green. The bank title 'THE BANK OF ACADIA' is inscribed across the upper centre, with 'WILL PAY ON DEMAND' below, and 'NOVA SCOTIA' appears at lower left and lower right. The serial number appears at upper left and upper right, with a repetitive border of 'FOUR' running along all four margins. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF ACADIA NOVA SCOTIA FOUR 4 |
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The Bank of Acadia was a short-lived Nova Scotia institution, and this 4 Dollar note reflects the peculiar denominational habits of pre-Confederation and early post-Confederation Canadian banking, when chartered banks still issued their own paper and $4 notes filled a practical gap between the $2 and $5 — useful for wage payments in fishing and timber trades where exact amounts mattered.
The British American Bank Note Company had been established in Montreal only in 1866, consolidating engraving work that had previously gone to American firms. Getting this contract was part of their early push to dominate Canadian chartered bank printing.