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4 Dollars = 20 Shillings

Emittent Accommodation Bank
Jahr 1837
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Vorderseitenlegende ACCOMMODATION
Upper Canada
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FIVE HUNDRED SHAREHOLDERS GO GOOD TO SUPPORT THIS BANK
FOR SALE THE AMOUNT OF REAL ESTATE PLEDGED FOR EIGHTFOLD MORE THAN THIS BANK
Will pay the bearer Twenty Shillings twelve months after date in Specie Current Bank Notes for value received
Kingston
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Varianten S1547r - remainder without date and serial number
S1547a - issued note
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The Accommodation Bank was chartered in 1835 and failed spectacularly in 1838, making its entire note issue extraordinarily short-lived. Ontario's pre-Confederation banking environment was notoriously permissive, and the Accommodation Bank was among the more thinly capitalized institutions to receive a charter — its collapse left local merchants holding worthless paper during an already turbulent period shaped by the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837.

The dual denomination — four dollars expressed alongside twenty shillings — reflects the awkward monetary reality of Upper Canada at the time, where sterling and decimal values coexisted in daily commerce.