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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Clifton |
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| Year | 1859 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1792-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCE OF CANADA THE BANK OF CLIFTON FIVE DOLLARS CAPITAL ONE MILLION DOLLARS CLIFTON FIVE |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain paper and shows a faint mirror-image offset of the obverse design, with the bold red FIVE overprint visible in reverse at centre and lathe-work numeral medallions apparent at the corners, consistent with an unissued or minimally circulated obsolete note of this type. |
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The Bank of Clifton was a short-lived Upper Canadian institution operating out of Clifton, Ontario — now Niagara Falls — and its notes were essentially designed for cross-border commerce with American visitors to the falls. The 1859 issue predates Confederation by nearly a decade, placing it firmly in the Province of Canada period when dozens of small chartered and quasi-chartered banks issued their own paper with minimal central oversight.
Pick 1662 is scarce. The bank's operating window was narrow, redemption was erratic, and notes that circulated along the tourist corridor tended to take hard use quickly.