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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Canadian Bank of Commerce |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white paper with pink underprint. The central vignette presents an allegorical female figure seated with a cello, rendered in fine engraved detail, flanked by ornate guilloche panels bearing the denomination numeral '5' and the inscription 'IN BARBADOS CURRENCY' on each side. The bank title 'THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE' arches across the upper border, with 'BARBADOS' printed vertically in the left and right margins, and the place and date of issue 'Bridgetown, Barbados' and '2nd January 1922' appearing in the lower register alongside two manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | FIVE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE |
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The Canadian Bank of Commerce was one of the few Canadian chartered banks still issuing its own currency into the 1930s, long after most competitors had quietly exited the practice. The 1922 series came at an awkward transitional moment — the 1923 Finance Act amendments were tightening federal control over chartered bank circulation, and notes of this type were effectively on borrowed time.
The Canadian Bank Note Company had been handling CBOC printing since the early twentieth century, a relationship that produced consistent but not particularly experimental work. Worth noting: CBNC's Ottawa operation was well established by this date, so attribution here is straightforward, unlike some earlier issues where British security printers complicated the record.
Redeemable at any CBOC branch — that liability sat on the bank's books until redemption or destruction.