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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Weyburn Security Bank |
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| Year | 1911 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette depicts a steam locomotive at a railway yard with figures and a horse-drawn cart in the foreground, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. Bank title arcs across the top within an ornate guilloche border; denomination counters appear at each corner. Date and place of issue read 'Weyburn, Sask., January 3rd, 1911' at lower centre, with two manuscript signatures below. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE WEYBURN SECURITY BANK / DOMINION OF CANADA / CHARTERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT / WILL PAY TO BEARER ON DEMAND / FIVE DOLLARS / WEYBURN, SASK. JANUARY 3RD 1911 / FIVE / 5 |
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The Weyburn Security Bank was chartered in 1910 and opened for business in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, at a moment when prairie incorporation fever was running hot. It never expanded beyond a handful of branches and was absorbed by the Standard Bank of Canada in 1917 — a lifespan of roughly seven years, which makes any surviving note from this issuer genuinely uncommon rather than artificially scarce.
The Canadian Bank Note Company held a near-monopoly on chartered bank printing in this period, supplying essentially every small prairie bank that briefly flourished before the consolidations of the late 1910s swept most of them away.