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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Royal Bank of Canada |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company, Ottawa, Canada |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on green guilloche underprint with red serial numbers. An allegorical female figure accompanied by children occupies the left vignette. Black overprints reading BARBADOS appear at left and right, with a vertical overprint PAYABLE AT BRIDGETOWN BARBADOS at centre, adapting this Canadian issue for Caribbean circulation. |
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| Reverse lettering | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 5 FIVE HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE DIEU ET MON DROIT (Translation: Shamed be the one who thinks ill of it. God and my right.) |
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The Royal Bank of Canada's early twentieth-century note production ran through the American Bank Note Company's Ottawa plant, which handled much of Canada's chartered bank printing during this period. The Royal Bank itself was still consolidating its national reach — having relocated its head office from Halifax to Montreal only in 1907, two years before this note was issued.
Chartered bank notes in Canada circulated alongside Dominion of Canada government currency until the Bank of Canada Act of 1934 effectively ended private bank note issuance. This 1909 series predates the regulatory tightening that followed the 1923 failure of the Home Bank, which accelerated political pressure toward centralized currency control.