Catalog
5 Dollars
| Issuer | Canadian Bank of Commerce, Toronto |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a central allegorical vignette of three classical figures — Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture — grouped around a terrestrial globe, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The bank's title, THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE, runs across the top border, with the denomination FIVE DOLLARS in large letterpress type at centre-left beneath the promise clause WILL PAY TO BEARER ON DEMAND. A circular guilloche vignette to the right displays the bank's coat of arms with a sailing ship, and the date TORONTO, 2ND JANUARY, 1917 appears at lower centre. Large ornamental V numerals appear in each upper corner and lower corner, with serial numbers in red flanking the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed entirely in green, carries a central allegorical composition with two large classical figures — a male figure representing Industry or Commerce at left and a female figure representing Harvest or Agriculture at right — flanking the bank's circular coat-of-arms seal bearing a sailing ship and the inscription CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE 1867. Large intaglio numeral 5 panels appear at left and right, with the word FIVE in block lettering beneath the central seal. The overall design is framed by an intricate guilloche border with X-pattern corner ornaments. |
| Reverse lettering | CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE 1867 FIVE |
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