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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of New Brunswick |
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| Year | 1892 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central allegorical vignette of a seated female figure surrounded by cherubs and attendant figures, set within an ornate guilloche frame, with the bank title 'The Bank of New Brunswick' arched across the top in bold script lettering. To the left, an intaglio portrait of a distinguished gentleman in formal attire is set within a decorative panel, with the numeral '5' rendered in green underprint at each corner. To the lower right, a circular vignette bearing the bank seal is visible, and the place of issue 'Saint John, New Brunswick' appears in the lower centre alongside manuscript lines for date and signatures, with the imprint of the American Bank Note Company at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents the back-printed impression of the obverse design visible in mirror image through the paper, consistent with a cancelled or unissued note; the sheet shows the ghost of the central allegorical vignette, the bank title, and corner numeral panels in pale blue-grey tones, with a pronounced diagonal crease across the full width of the note and four cancellation punch holes along the lower margin. |
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The Bank of New Brunswick was one of the smaller Maritime chartered banks, operating out of Fredericton with a history stretching back to 1820. By 1892 it was already in its final decade — the bank was absorbed by the Bank of Montreal in 1913, and late-series notes like this one had a correspondingly limited circulation life.
The American Bank Note Company's New York presses handled security printing for dozens of Canadian chartered banks during this period, a practical arrangement given ABNC's engraving capabilities relative to anything available domestically at the time.