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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of British North America, Montreal |
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| Year | 1886 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | THE BANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER Montreal TO BEARER ON DEMAND FIVE DOLLARS FIVE • FIVE • FIVE • FIVE • FIVE |
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| Reverse lettering | THE BANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA 5 5 |
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The Bank of British North America was a London-chartered institution operating across the Canadian colonies and later the Dominion, but its notes for this period were engraved and printed entirely in New York by the American Bank Note Company — a common arrangement that reflects how thoroughly ABNC dominated high-security printing on the continent in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The Montreal payable designation was a commercial and legal requirement, not an indication of where the work was done.
By 1886, the bank was navigating the Dominion's tightening bank note regulations under the 1871 Bank Act and its subsequent revisions, which gradually constrained chartered banks' freedom of issue. This note belongs to the last generation of relatively unconstrained private banknote production before federal oversight became genuinely restrictive in the 1890s.