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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Niagara District Bank, St. Catharines |
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| Year | 1872 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio engraving on white cotton paper, with a central vignette at the top showing a paddle-wheel steamboat under steam on open water, flanked by numeral '5' counters set within elaborate guilloche rosettes bearing the word FIVE at the upper left and right. The bank title 'THE NIAGARA DISTRICT BANK' appears below the vignette in bold serif lettering, with 'FIVE DOLLARS' in a hatched panel beneath, followed by the promise text and the date line 'St. Catharines, 1st July 1872'. Portrait medallions of two unidentified male figures in formal dress occupy the lower left and right corners, with manuscript facsimile signatures of the Cashier and President below the central text, and the printer's imprint of the British American Bank Note Company at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green on a plain white ground, the reverse carries an intricate engine-turned guilloche pattern covering the full field, composed of repeating geometric rosettes and interlocking lathe-work typical of mid-nineteenth-century security printing. A central oval panel in white reserve bears the bank name 'THE NIAGARA DISTRICT BANK' in two lines of bold serif lettering, while numeral '5' counters in white relief appear within matching guilloche medallions at the left and right margins. |
| Reverse lettering | THE NIAGARA DISTRICT BANK 5 5 |
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