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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Mechanics Bank, Montreal |
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| Year | 1872 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark grey-black intaglio ink on cream-coloured cotton paper, the obverse centres on a large pastoral vignette depicting cattle, a bear, and a farmer with a horse-drawn plough, framed within an elaborate lathe-work guilloche border. The bank title 'THE MECHANICS BANK' is set in bold serif lettering across the centre, above the promise text 'Will pay Five Dollars to bearer on demand MONTREAL' with a manuscript date of 1st June 1872 and two manuscript signatures for the Cashier and President. A bold numeral '5' occupies a guilloche panel at the upper right, with a smaller '5' counterpart at the lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is uniformly printed in blue ink and built around a highly ornate guilloche composition centred on an oval cartouche bearing the inscription 'MECHANICS BANK' in raised lettering. Large Roman numeral 'V' devices are set within elaborately engraved rosette panels to the left and right of the central medallion, the entire field enclosed by an intricate lathe-work border characteristic of mid-nineteenth-century American Bank Note Company security printing. |
| Reverse lettering | MECHANICS BANK V V |
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