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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Zimmerman Bank, Elgin |
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| Year | 1850 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCE OF CANADA THE ZIMMERMAN BANK FIVE DOLLARS On demand Will pay to bearer The Office of the Bank here ELGIN CAPITAL ONE MILLION DOLLARS INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT FIVE 5 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in red and blue, with large ornate script numerals '5' repeated across the central field within an intricate engine-turned guilloche pattern, and blue oval counters positioned at each corner. The design is characteristic of mid-nineteenth-century North American banknote back printing, relying on complex geometric lathe-work engraving as the primary anti-counterfeiting measure. |
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| Protection type | Guilloche underprint, Lathe-work pattern |
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